I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

I don’t really like to call myself a brand, and I don’t like to think of myself as a brand. I’m a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that’s not my focus.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

I can’t disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses – the wheelchair gives me away.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

When you say ‚follow me on Twitter,‘ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

Bob Marley isn’t my name. I don’t even know my name yet.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

I’m not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

There was a time Michael Jackson couldn’t get his video on MTV because he was considered to be ‚urban.‘ The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I’m gone, after I’m dead.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer… in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

I didn’t like the way I looked in pictures – when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, ‚Eesh.‘

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.