What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

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.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

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

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

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.

A woman has the age she deserves.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

I’m perpetually lonely.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head – chemo-brain they call it. It’s awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

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.