Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
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.
I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
The man with no imagination has no wings.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
