I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

Begin your day, upon awakening, with prayers of gratitude, requests and affirmations that they are being answered—always ending with more gratitude.

And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she was doing so much but because she was feeling so much.

It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.

Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series [in Andy Griffith Show] in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967.

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.

I would suggest your awareness is your karma. How you feel generates your level of attention.

We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?"

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

The situation's fraught, Fraughter than I thought, With horrible, impossible possibilities!