Your Quotes

As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Never give up on your child. But also, you have to love your child.

You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.

This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?