You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

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

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It’s definitely a gift and for which I’m thankful.

There is so much that people take for granted.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

Never take anything for granted.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

I believe that one person can make a difference.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

I know love is the answer.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

My message is that God is a good God.

Everybody likes a compliment.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

Each day provides its own gifts.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

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

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.