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

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

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

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

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Everything you can imagine is real.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

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

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.