Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

You shape your own destiny.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

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

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

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