First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

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

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

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

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

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

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

Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.