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The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be.
Love doesn't care how much money you have. It doesn't care who your parents are. It doesn't care if you're gay, straight, or transgender.
A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.
Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.
A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.
We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and revealed.
I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.
When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.
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.
Someone once asked me, 'How can you get as strong as an ox without eating any meat?' My answer was, 'Have you ever seen an ox eating meat?'
No matter how dope you are, if you ain't really built, if you ain't put that groundwork in, you gonna flop. Nobody gonna fill those arenas.
Success is like a wild horse. If you do not know how to handle it, it will throw you off and look for another rider who can handle it well.
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
Sometimes, the hardest things are just the simple things. Basically, get out of your own head and just go play the game you know how to play.
I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.
We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody's got to buy into that standard or you really can't have any team chemistry.
The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.
It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them.
It does not matter how much we donate; it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge.
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.
Time is something that cannot be bought; it cannot be wagered with God, and it is not in endless supply, Time is simply how you live your life.
God is my best friend. I talk to God every day. And no one can tell me how to talk to God - not no imam, not no priest, not no rabbi, no pastor.
But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?
Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.
If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?
Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self.
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.
I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.
Being beautiful isn't everything... Sometimes it's interesting to show how you feel on the inside on the outside, just through expressing yourself.
Bitcoin is really a fascinating example of how human beings create value, and is not always rational... tt is not a rational currency in that case.
I've been through so much in my life. I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next.
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
We live in a society that, for the most part, is morally and spiritually bankrupt. Our culture is a culture of consumerism. How sustainable is that?
My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you leave a little footprint, and that's your legacy.