If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

Never assume someone is smarter than you.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks of your life. All that matters is what you think of it, and what you decide to make of it.

I'm always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

I have the most beautiful daughter in the world and I'm grateful for her.

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

Others may not understand your joy and contentment because of your certainty about who you are and why you exist. Don't waste your time to explain.

I was willing to put it at risk in order for someone to gain, in order for the situation to get better.

I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.

On the way up here to the podium, a gentleman came up to me and said, "Governor, you are as good a politician as you were an actor." What a cheap shot.

I always put my identity at the forefront of my music.

Let every man look before he leaps.

I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

To be successful, one has to be one of three bees: the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.