“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Africa will write its own history, and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity.