Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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

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

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

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

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

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

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

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

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

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.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

The unexamined life is not worth living.