Dig the well before you are thirsty.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

The minute you get away from fundamentals—whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation—the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you're doing.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

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.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

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.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.