When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

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

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

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.