A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

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

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

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

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

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

United we stand; divided we fall.