What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.

I believe there is only one race - the human race.

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.

Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.

One person can change the world.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Repentance leads to rebirth.

If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.

I really learned to approach climbing not just with a pure athletic mentality, but also to appreciate all these beautiful places we get to go to.

May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.

When you start to get influenced by your family, you feel love for someone else and your heart starts to move away from yourself.

What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.

The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry, moves straight onward not the less, and to its object.

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.