If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

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

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

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

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.