You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Luckily we don't sleep standing. Who knows where the dream will take us!

Hell, right now my only weapons were Obnoxious and Snark, and I intended to use them whenever possible.

Every story has three sides to it - yours mine and the facts.

My art teacher told me I'd be suited to graphic design, but I just couldn't, because it was what my dad had done.

One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.

If we only do what we're familiar with, we might miss what we've been made for.

I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.

Whereas our grandparents lived as if they had swallowed gyroscopes, we think and act as if we have swallowed Gallup polls.

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

I say I’m not shy, but… Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you’ve got to be really confident to put yourself out there to be judged.