I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

I woke up one day and thought: ‚I want to write a book about the history of my body.‘ I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

Playing Etta James in the movie ‚Cadillac Records‘ really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It’s no fun being safe.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

How young can you die of old age?

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

This lady is not for turning.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.