My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

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

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

The time is always right to do the right thing

You are never too old to become younger!

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

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

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

There is always room at the top.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.