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.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

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

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

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

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

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

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

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

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

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.