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

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Make today worth remembering.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

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

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

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

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

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.