I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

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

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Engineering didn’t take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Pershing Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

I don’t like freeloaders; I don’t like people who are negative.

Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out.

The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, ‚Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,‘ and that is true. Everything I’ve accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

I bear a charmed life.

I won’t belong to any organization that would have me as a member.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

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

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

I’m very picky; I’m never happy with anything. It’s so hard to give the record away and accept that you’re done.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

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

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.