If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.
Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.
You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.
I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God...I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world.
Where you start is not as important as where you finish.
or simply: