Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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...

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

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

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

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.