You can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural.

Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die.

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.

Never take advice from a donkey.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.

Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.

When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.

Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.

It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.

Have you been called to greatness? There is a way to tell. Do you have a pulse?

People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence.

Be grateful for small mercies.

Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.

I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.

As for being on Twitter, I enjoy it tremendously, and it is wonderfully overwhelming to see people not just digging it and liking it.

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.

I will believe in the 500-channel world only when I see it.

One they stop talking to you, they start talking about you.