Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

Your greatness is measured by your kindness.

Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

We are meant to do the work of angels for we are often disguised from ourSelves.

It’s one thing to have the respect of your peers in the business. Their opinions are not always verbalized but if you are doing the right thing you don’t need validation.

Whoever believes in getting water feels no thirst.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.

The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.

We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out their little lives in the desert, for few reach heaven.

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard.

It's not going to be easy, but it's going to be awesome. Awesome Ain't Easy.

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.