Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

I do not care for the money, just for the glory.

Nationalism as we know it, is the result of a form of state-sponsored branding.

I've never had an acting lesson. I've never been given techniques. Everything I've done is invented. I just sort of found out [how to do it].

The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.

Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.

Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.

Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.

I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.