I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

I don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you’ll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

I’m an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

I first found delight in the Sabbath many years ago when, as a busy surgeon, I knew that the Sabbath became a day for personal healing. By the end of each week, my hands were sore from repeatedly scrubbing them with soap, water, and a bristle brush. I also needed a breather from the burden of a demanding profession.

I like to take it easy.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.