Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

Only when I fall do I get up again.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

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

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.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

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

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

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

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

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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

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

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.