Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

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.‘

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

God helps those who help themselves.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

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.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

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

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

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

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.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

I’ve never gone wrong trusting my gut.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

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

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

Before all else, be armed.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Freedom lies in being bold.

I don’t really plan. I’m almost intuitive about things.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

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.‘

The woman that deliberates is lost.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.