If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.

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

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

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

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

When I give, I give myself.

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

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 discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

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