You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

I think that I’m perfect.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

I think I’ve got wiser.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

To lead people walk behind them.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

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.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that’s a violation of basic human rights.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

My life is mine to remember.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

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

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

I am a part of everything that I have read.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Man, all lives matter.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.