Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

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

You got to get it while you can.

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.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Be yourself, let you come through.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.