Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

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

It's always too early to quit.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

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

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

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

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

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