Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Ideas come from everything

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

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

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.