You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

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

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

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

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

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.