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

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

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

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

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

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

Freedom and independence form my character.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

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.

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

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

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.