In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I dwell in possibility.
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.
Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way.
In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better.