Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Without failure there is no achievement.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

I’m ugly.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

It’s a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

Now I do whatever I want.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

Never complain. Never explain.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

Better is the enemy of good.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Steve Jobs‘ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Civil disobedience’s main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.