No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

How long should you try? Until.

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

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

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

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

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

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

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

One man with courage is a majority.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

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

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.