I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Character is power.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

I’m a can-do girl.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

I won’t do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can’t, it’s not gonna make the team.

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

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.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I’ve never gone wrong trusting my gut.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

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

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

By that sin fell the angels.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Here’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.