With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

I worked my face off.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‚This is what I asked for.‘

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don’t move fast, but I just keep moving.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.