My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

I refuse to allow the excuses in my mind to grow into giants that keep me from living up to my full potential.

They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.

Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

My legacy is that I will hustle and grind. No one will stop me from hustling. I'll be where God wants me to be.

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

I literally have zero friends. So I like people to adore me, but I never had a talent that made people adore me.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.

One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Whenever I'm feeling down, I remind myself that my flaws make me perfect, because in reality there is no perfect.

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

For me, fitness is not just about hitting the gym; it is also about an inner happiness and an overall well-being.

Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.

The bat is not a toy, it's a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.

I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends! I'm fine the way I am.

One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

When the United States of America does things in its best interests, it is hated. I'm sorry, that just ticks me off.

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Just growing up and going through life and how tough life was for me and my family, I'm always going to stay humble.

My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.

I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do.

I'm unbelievably ticklish. When I was a little kid, my sisters would hold me down and tickle me until I peed my pants.

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

I schedule 'me' time because, just like everyone else, I need to unwind. I try to remember to take it easy and breathe.

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