Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

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

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

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

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

What is past is prologue.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

I live in a crazy time.

The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I’d give up just about everything else for that.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

My life is my message.

Malcolm X was the first political person in this country that I really identified with. If he had lived and not been purged, I probably would have joined the Muslims.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.