With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.

Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world, and all you have to do is go and seek it.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.

If you get up everyday and you don't learn you are a fool

The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind

Do not remove the kinks from your hair--remove them from your brain.

Capitalism is a social system where the health and security of a nation are compromised for corporate gain.

If a book is worth reading it is worth buying.

It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting.

I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.

When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don't ordinarily call upon in your personal life.

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.