When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

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

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

I love those who can smile in trouble...

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.