We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

One man with courage is a majority.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

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.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

I’m interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?