Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

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

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

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.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

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

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

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

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

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

I love those who can smile in trouble...

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Freedom and independence form my character.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

I believe that every person is born with talent.