Your Quotes

Don't you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night.

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'

Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you're not thinking about your lines or what you're supposed to do - your body, your brain knows, so there's freedom. There's not fear, there's not nerves.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in your body of work if you've proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they'll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Drugs are a bet with your mind.