Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

I owe my solitude to other people.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

I have to be seen to be believed.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

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

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

We all have the duty to do good.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

You should never give up your inner self.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

My life has been very full.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

Faith never makes a confession.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?