The critics only made me work harder.

All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.

We can't be brave without fear.

When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.

It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.

You know you’re in love the moment you can touch the stars without reaching. -Morgan

The rich know not who is his friend.

No guy in the history of America has ordered a Smirnoff Ice at a bar without hating himself a little.

Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?

If you're working at the factory and you're cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You'll just make yourself ill.

Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.

If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline

You can't fake authenticity.

if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.