I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

The bottom line on the Hyde Amendment is that it is directly, in effect, targeting poor women and women who don’t have money.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

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.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren’t the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

One of the things people don’t really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they’re celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.