Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

I am the captain of my soul.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

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

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I am possible'

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.