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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.

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

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.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

You change your life by changing your heart.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.

When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, 'You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.' It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself.

If you want to be happy, be.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.