Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

I will not be triumphed over.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

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

God enters by a private door into every individual.

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.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

I’m not who people expect me to be. I’m not Henry Kissinger.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

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.

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.