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

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

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.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.