I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn’t speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn’t speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

When I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

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.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.