Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

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 must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

Make today worth remembering.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

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

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

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

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

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

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.

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

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

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

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.