The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

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

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

Freedom and independence form my character.

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

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.