Never doubt your efforts—one person can make an enormous difference.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing!

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success, but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

The true worth is not to be found in man himself, but in the colors and texture that come alive in others.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

Esteem to your higher self.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

You don't have to be big or well known to be great.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the small man seeks is in others.