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.

Only the shallow know themselves.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

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.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.