The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

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

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

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

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

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

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

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

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.