Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

Love yourself like your life depends on it, because it does.

People should allow themselves the opportunity to really know what the unity of God means. To grasp a part of the nondivisible union is to grasp the whole.

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This is what freedom means.

At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.

I've been on television saying, "¡Vamos a la biblioteca!". That was great. Nobody had ever asked me.

When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!