Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Never discourage someone who is working toward a goal, no matter their speed!

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain forever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

Action expresses priorities.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

If we do not make common cause to save the good old ship of the Union on this voyage, nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

I just want God’s will. And He’s allowed to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promise land . . . So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.

There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.