You have to first believe in what you are, in what you can do, in what you say before you can make anybody believe in you.

Success is not an accident. It is sheer hard work. There is no short-cuts. You have to take the stairs and you have to start from the bottom.

One of the greatest things you can do to help others is not just to share and give what you have, but to help them discover what they have within themselves to help themselves.

Love cannot be measured over time and space. It is not how long you know each other, it is how well you know each other.

The presence of many does not and cannot replace the absence of one. That is love.

Don't be afraid to show your feelings. Wear your heart on your sleeves. The right one will see

A woman should not hold on to her man so tight, afraid to let him out of sight. A woman should give her man his space but hold on to his heart

You can love many people. But the truth is you can only be IN LOVE with just ONE.

There will always be real friends and fake friends. It is difficult to distinguish the two because both will appear the same in the beginning but so different at the end.

When you do things for others; don't expect your good deeds to be returned. Do it because you enjoy making someone's day.

Don't ever let anyone turn your sky into a ceiling.

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

Three Ps that I can't sacrifice: Process, Purpose, and Principles.

And where there is ignorance, there is also want of learning and instruction in essentials.

A man will strategically organize his life in boxes and then spend most of his time in the boxes he can succeed in.

My image is very important to me. I want to bring a good face to my family. That's the way I've been raised.

I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.

Tis not for mortals always to be blest.

To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.

In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.