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

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

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.

To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.