You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
When I give, I give myself.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
Be yourself, let you come through.
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.