“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation.”

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I never lose. I either win or learn.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.

Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.