It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Big results require big ambitions.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Change alone is unchanging.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence?

If I didn't think you were the devil, I'd say you'd be able to seduce even him.

I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.

When taxes are too high, people go hungry. When the government is too intrusive, people lose their spirit. Act for the people's benefit. Trust them; leave them alone.

I've always tried to vote my conscience.

It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.

If Trump really can build up American infrastructure, that will help reinflate the world economy, and that would be a good thing.

You are all that you are longing for.

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.

I guess my mantra is you have to work really hard if you want something. You have to be committed to hard work and persistence even when it gets tough.