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.

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

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

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.

There is a force that somehow pushes us to choose the more difficult path whereby we can transcend the mire and muck into which we are so often born. Despite all that resists the process, we do become better human beings.

For great and low there's but one test: 'Tis that each man do his best.

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

Football is like life—it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

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.

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

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

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.