If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

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

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Above all things, respect yourself.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

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

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I am possible'

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

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

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.