If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I never expected to be anybody important.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

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

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

I’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

I got my own back.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.