To go too far is as bad as to fall short.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

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

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

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

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

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 want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

United we stand; divided we fall.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.