Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

A jug fills drop by drop.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

The best way out is always through.

At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

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’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.