I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

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

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

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

All thinking men are atheists.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

The man with no imagination has no wings.

One man with courage is a majority.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

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

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

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

It's always too early to quit.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.