You Quotes

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.