If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Vanity is but the surface.

We become what we repeatedly do.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

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

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

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

I break ground. I trailblaze.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

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.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don’t notice they’re getting made fun of. So they’ll say something back that’s not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

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

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

I never expected to be anybody important.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

I think and that is all that I am.

An unused life is an early death.