History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

I used to – my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I’ve always heard kind of melodies in my head.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

Bhai was my hero and he had immense influence on me.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

I don’t regard myself as a cracking good climber. I’m just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I’m good on ice.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

There’s no formula.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

I will not be triumphed over.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.