Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

I got my own back.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

Character is power.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

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.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.

I don’t regret anything.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

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

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

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.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.