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.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Freedom and independence form my character.

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

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

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

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

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

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

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

United we stand; divided we fall.

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

You got to get it while you can.