I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

All thinking men are atheists.

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

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

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

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

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

When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Ideas come from everything

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

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

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

One man with courage is a majority.

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