Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

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

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

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

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.

Aim for the highest.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

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