If you can't get a miracle, become one.

Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words and your faith stronger than your feelings.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

Breathe and don't try to be perfect.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can't drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we can't have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.... Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture ... Do not build obstacles in your imagination ... Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.