So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
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...
One man with courage is a majority.
Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.