If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

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

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

We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box...

When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

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

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

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

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.