How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

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

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

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

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.