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

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

It's always too early to quit.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

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.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

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

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

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

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

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

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

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

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