A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

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?

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

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

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

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

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

Always do what you are afraid to do.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

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

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.