I have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way

Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Action must be taken at once, there is no time to be lost.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Some may decide to build homes somewhere new, and others have homes that await them. Like a break in a relationship, we simply needed some time apart to be better for the future.

Work for purpose, be for others.

If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.

Whenever there's a camera in my face, that's when I feel vulnerable, and then it turns into a little bit of being self-conscious, which I think is the worst kind of vulnerability.

Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.

My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy.

Today I fulfill my creative side. I want to bloom wherever I am planted!

The vision of a blood-washed Africa propelled me to go from Cape Town to Cairo and start Christ for all Nations.

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.

With the camera you might even not need the reporters. But, you see, media can't trust you to watch [Barack] Obama without them telling you what you just saw and analyzing it.