People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

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

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

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

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

I am the captain of my soul.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

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

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

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

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

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.