However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

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

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

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

The unexamined life is not worth living.

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

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

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

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.