For every dark night, there's a brighter day

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

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...

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

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

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

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

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

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