Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

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.

Everything you can imagine is real.

You got to get it while you can.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

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.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.