The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

Now I realize that from ’72 through to about ’76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn’t have been more rock star.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

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

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Men must know their limitations.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

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.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

Love is a state of being.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

I let the American people down.

You either make dust or eat dust.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.