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

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

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.

I don’t have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.

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

U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.

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.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

Freedom lies in being bold.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Now I do whatever I want.

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.

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

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

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Woman was God’s second mistake.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

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.

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

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

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

Before all else, be armed.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.