Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

The only way round is through.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Things do not change; we change.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.