What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

Self-realization, which leads to purity of the soul, requires forgiving our enemies and working on the most horrendous modules of oneself.

There's no such thing as a goal cast in stone. It should be a living thing that becomes a part of your life.

If not you, who? If not now, when? The worst thing well-meaning people can do is simply let things remain as they are.

If you feel helpless, go help someone.

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

When you get to a place where you don't go for what you can get, but you go for what you can give, you gonna see your life change tremendously.

Love doesn't care what we call it.

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.

I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.