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

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

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

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

The time is always right to do the right thing

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

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

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.