Regardless of where the offer comes from, I'll choose characters that are inspiring and challenging.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

I don't see a day when teenagers don't read. They are very enthusiastic. That is so inspiring to me.

You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.

Great performers are preparing and practicing for a winning day while everyone else is still asleep.

No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.

You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.

It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.

What is important is what inspires persistence and determination- in other words what you care about.

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.

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

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.

It will always be relevant and always be inspiring to see somebody turning themselves into a warrior.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.

Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

If you doubted your fears instead of doubting your dreams, imagine how much in life you'd accomplish.

What we spend, we lose. What we keep will be left for others. What we give away will be ours forever.

What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.

It was inspiring to see local legends like E-40 and Keak da Sneak break out with 'Tell Me When to Go.'

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.

I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

I think not focusing on money makes you sane, because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.

We tried in our simple way to lead our life in a manner that may make a difference to those of others.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now.

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

Every raindrop that falls is accompanied by an angel, for even a raindrop is a manifestation of being.

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers

You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

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