Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

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.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

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.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Know thyself.

Freedom and independence form my character.

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

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

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.