We get called dishonoring for pointing out the garbage in the church, yet nobody ever seems to think it's dishonoring that somebody put the garbage there in the first place.

I think you should try... not to try to be better than everyone around you, but try to be better than yourself everyday.

A champion is defined by the adversity he overcomes

Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

I am not the best, but I am capable of achieving the impossible.

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.

You must have a dragon hidden inside you. When you need, you let the dragon out.

To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

I don't think I'm better than anyone; I just like to prove to myself that things I imagine can be done.

No one can know what happiness is if you have not gone through the disappointmentOne can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others. If you shun someone, the effect will trickle down through those who value your opinion.

At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting

Sometimes Hillary Clinton doesn't get the credit she deserves. But the fact is, Hillary is steady, and Hillary is true.

You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules. --Abbey Drake

Now go away, or I'll get my friends the Bats to bite you.

There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.

Whitney Houston, one of my biggest inspirations, also had that same mindset because her songs vary from R&B, hip hop, pop, and gospel.

gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.

No matter what projects I'm taking on, I want to (do) things to help other people.

All it takes is for one person to say you’re ugly, and you’re like, I guess I’m ugly. And that was it.