Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

Life is not a race....Everyone can win, so stop going around in circles.

You can't see the light without darkness, take a look at the dark side of another point of view, you will find the meaning of darkness are essentially

It is a frightening thing to love someone you know the world rejects.

We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

I think that probably all religions sound bizarre to the people who are not the practitioners of them.

Keep your sense of self; don't get caught up in what people want you to be.

No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.