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

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

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

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

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

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

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

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

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

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.