If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

There is always room at the top.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.