What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Always do whatever’s next.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

Passions are the gales of life.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

I never say I am a guru.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

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

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

Feminism… I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, ‚Free to be You and Me.‘

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

Things do not change; we change.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn’t speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I’ll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

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.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.