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With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.
Late in my career, I was asked to do an inspirational record and a duets album and I didn't want to do either.
Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.
I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.
If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.
There exists no God. What exists is godliness, and that godliness surrounds you. We are all in the same ocean.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.
I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.
That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.
Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success.
Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.
You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.
Show me anger and I will show you 'Hurt'. Show me hurt and I will show you 'Love'. Peel the layers if you care!
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
The measure of a man’s character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
The good nail will do its job regardless what kind of hammer comes its way and what kind of surface it sits on.
Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.
No matter what you look like or think you look like, you're special and loved and perfect just the way you are.
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
There is one thing I know for sure. You can become successful, if you are willing to pay the price for success.
You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship
There should be less talk. . . . What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.
The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.
When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.
Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
It’s believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits.
Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
We can't afford to be innocent, stand up and face the enemy. It's a do or die situation, we will be invincible.