The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

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

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life – I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

If Sunday is the Lord’s day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

My friends, there are no friends.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

Throughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.