Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.

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.

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

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

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

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

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

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.