Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

You are never too old to become younger!

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

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

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

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

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

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

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

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

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

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

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

You shape your own destiny.