It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

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

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

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

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think