There is a season for everything under the sun—even when we can’t see the sun.

You can actually overcome all the limitations of life and achieve your dreams, if you don't give up too early.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Success is for those who are persistent in the face of reality. The harsher the truth, the stronger they hold on to their dreams.

The Holy Ghost is no temporary gift, He abides with the saints. We have but to seek Him aright, and He will be found of us. He is jealous, but He is pitiful; if He leaves in anger, He returns in mercy. Condescending and tender, He does not weary of us, but awaits to be gracious still.

Persevere like a seed; even when people try to bury you, flourish.

It's impossible to sprint into the providential arms of what is ahead...If we continue to trip on what is behind.

Do not complain, pray for courage to endure the situation.

And I know that there are black boys and black girls out there lost in a Bermuda triangle of the mind or stranded in the doldrums of America, some of them treading and some of them drowning, never feeling and never forgetting. The most precious thing I had then is the most precious thing I have now—my own curiosity. That is the thing I knew, even in the classroom, they could not take from me. That is the thing that buoyed me and eventually plucked me from the sea.

All great people had critics, but they still believe in beauty of their dreams.