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.

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

All wealth is the product of labor.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

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

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

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

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

What I stand for is what I stand on.