A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

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

It always seems impossible until it's done.

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

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

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

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

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

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