You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

One day Alice came to fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. “Which road do I take?” she asked. His response was a question: “Where do you want to go?” “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then, “said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.”

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

Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

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

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the toughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

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.

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.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

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.

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.