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.

Men must know their limitations.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

God has entrusted me with myself.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

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

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Life must be lived as play.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

Always do whatever’s next.

My future is righteousness.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.