Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

When I ask people to give, I can’t be on television if they don’t; I can’t help people, if I don’t – I mean, it takes money.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality – they don’t feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

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

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

I came up from a difficult background.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

Now I do whatever I want.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

I am fearless.

I like to give back.

I don’t know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.

I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

Work alone is noble.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I’ve had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm’s way until they could be their own guides.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!