Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

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

Listen to many, speak to a few.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

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

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

I am the captain of my soul.

Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

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

They alone live, who live for others.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

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

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.