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

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

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

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

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

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

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

The best way out is always through.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.