Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

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

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Change in all things is sweet.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

Fear is exciting for me.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head – chemo-brain they call it. It’s awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.