Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Life should be great rather than long.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. 

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst. 

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).