Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

You’re looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

Being seventy is not a sin.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

I want the world to see my body.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

Don’t feel sorry for me.