It is not a matter of competing with someone else. Essentially, it is accepting our own special abilities as special – and then developing them. - Ben Carson

I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future.

We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.

I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.