Bruce Lee, born Lee Jun-fan (November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, martial arts instructor, actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and philosopher. He’s considered to be the most influential martial artist of all time and helped change the way Asians were represented in American movies.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Bruce Lee.

“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”

“If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.”

“Be happy, but never satisfied.”

“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”

“Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.” 

“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”

“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self-evaluation and self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.”

“The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.”

“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

“As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.”

“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”

“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”

“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.”

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”

“If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.”

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

“For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.”

“A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. ”

“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”

“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”

“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”

“Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.”

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

“Obey the principles without being bound by them.”

“The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.”

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”

“Be self-aware, rather than a repetitious robot”

“As you think, so shall you become.”

“Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”

“The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.”

“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

“Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.”

“Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.”

“Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.”

“Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.”

“The More we value things, the less we value ourselves”

“All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.”

“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”

“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”

“The word ‘superstar’ is an illusion”

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Socrates (469-399 B.C.) was a Greek philosopher and one of the originators of Western philosophy. He is most known for the Socratic method, which involves repeatedly asking questions instead of relaying information. Due to his unconventional style and outspoken pursuit of the truth, he was sentenced to death for corrupting the youth of Athens.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Socrates.

“No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.”

“A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.”

“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”

“Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It’s true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don’t care. Once you’ve tasted the truth, you won’t ever want to go back to being ignorant.”

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”

“He is the richest who is content with the least.”

“If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.”

“Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.”

“Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.”

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”

“To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly.”

“Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practice daily these eighteen “ities” You will soon attain immortality.”

“Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and hugs. Yesterday is about experience; tomorrow is about hope; today is about transitioning from one to the other. The happiest people on earth don’t have the best of everything… they make the best of everything I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”

“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”

“Every action has its pleasures and its price.”

“The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.”

“The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all . . . all enquiry and all learning is but recollection.”

“The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.”

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Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828—November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer and is recognized as one of the greatest authors of all time. War and Peace is widely considered his best work. 

Below we list some words of wisdom from Leo Tolstoy. 

“The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.” 

“Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.” 

“Boredom: the desire for desires.” 

“Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.” 

“Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.” 

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” 

“If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.” 

“Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” 

“A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.” 

“People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.” 

“The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me? It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to exist without a religion than without a heart.” 

“School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children’s conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.” 

“Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: “the gift of seeing what others have not seen.” 

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.” 

“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.” 

“As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence – as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual.” 

“Mathematics is the queen of disciplines…. it will drive the nonsense out of your head!” 

“An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life—becoming a better person.” 

“Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.” 

“In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.” 

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François-Marie Arouet (November 21st, 1694 – May 30th, 1778), also known as his pen name Voltaire, was one of the first internationally successful writers. He wrote more than 2,000 books and pamphlets and 20,000 letters, along with plays, essays, poems, and scientific expositions. He was an advocate of freedom of speech and religion.

Below are words of wisdom from Voltaire.

“If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.”

“If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.”

“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.”

“The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.”

“So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.”

“The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.”

“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”

“Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.”

“Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.”

“Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.”

“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”

“It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.”

“Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.”

“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”

“The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.”

“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.”

“In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.”

“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”

“Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?”

“Beware of the words “internal security,” for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.”

“The more a man knows, the less he talks.”

“Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”

“It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.”

“Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.”

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”

“Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.”

“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”

“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”

“Dare to think for yourself.”

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”

“Common sense is not so common.”

“The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.”

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”

“We are all guilty of the good we did not do”

“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”

“The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”

“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.”

“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”

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Nelson Mandela (July 18, 1918—December 5, 2013) was an anti-apartheid revolutionary who was targeted by the South African ruling elite, charged with treason, and sent to prison. He never gave up fighting for human rights and after his release from prison, eventually became president of South Africa.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Nelson Mandela.

“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.”

“One of the most difficult things is not to change society – but to change yourself.”

“I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.”

“Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns.”

“It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not.”

“A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy. The press must be free from state interference. It must have the economic strength to stand up to the blandishments of government officials. It must have sufficient independence from vested interests to be bold and inquiring without fear or favor. It must enjoy the protection of the constitution, so that it can protect our rights as citizens.”

“A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.”

“When we dehumanize and demonize our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.”

“In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one’s social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education… But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one’s development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others – qualities which are within easy reach of every soul – are the foundation of one’s spiritual life.”

“But the human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one’s spirits strong even when one’s body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.”

“There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.”

“One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history.”

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

“Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”

“It only seems impossible until it’s done.”

“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”

“If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important – and you do that by being genuine and humble.”

“It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.”

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Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and helped draft the United States Declaration of Independence. He was also the first United States postmaster general, founder of many civic organizations, and a printer, publisher, scientist, inventor, writer, and diplomat.

Below we list some words of wisdom by Benjamin Franklin.

“If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.”

“Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.”

“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.”

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. When you’re down to nothing, God is up to something. The faithful see the invisible, believe the incredible and then receive the impossible. Where liberty dwells there is my country.”

“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.”

“Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas.”

“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”

“Out of adversity comes opportunity.”

“Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.”

“Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.”

“The world is run by the people who show up.”

“There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.”

“Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!”

“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”

“Genius is the ability to hold one’s vision steady until it becomes reality.”

“Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

“All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.”

“Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life.”

“Half the truth is often a great lie.”

“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”

“There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don’t get it, or don’t want to do anything about it; there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it; and there are people who move, people who make things happen.”

“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know…. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.”

“Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy.”

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Plato (429–347 BC), the Greek philosopher, is known as one of the greatest and most influential philosophers of the ancient world. The academy he founded, one of the first Western schools to offer higher learning, helped shape how we structure schools and universities today. Besides philosophy, he taught mathematics, political theory, science, and it’s theorized he also taught metaphysics, considering he wrote extensively on the topic.

What is less known about Plato is that he believed in reincarnation and the soul is eternal. He also believed the lost continent of Atlantis existed thousands of years before, then disappeared in one day due to catastrophic forces.

Below we list select words of wisdom by Plato.

“Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.”

“A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.”

“Everything changes and nothing remains still.”

“The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.”

“Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.”

“People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren’t.”

“In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill… we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”

“Necessity is literally the mother of invention.”

“The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.”

“Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.”

“Geometry existed before creation.”

“Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.”

“Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.”

“Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals.”

“If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.”

“We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we’re looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven’t found it.”

“Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.”

“Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom – all other knowledge is transient.”

“I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with.”

“There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children’s lessons take the form of play.”

“Don’t force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.”

“The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.”

“The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.”

“And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?”

“No one can escape his destiny.”

“Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.”

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Maya Angelou was an American civil rights activist and wrote seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry. She was also an actress, director, and produced plays, movies, and public television programs over 50 years, and received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Below we list some words of wisdom from Maya Angelou.

“If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.”

“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.”

“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!”

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style”

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.”

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That’s why it’s important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are.”

“Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.”

“If you are going down a road and don’t like what’s in front of you, and look behind you and don’t like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!”

“Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.”

“My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.”

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

“If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully.”

“We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate – thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.”

“Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.”

“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”

“You don’t need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.”

“Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you the kind of protection that bodyguards can’t give you. So try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity. Take up the battle. Take it up. It’s yours. This is your life. This is your world.”

“I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.”

“A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.”

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

“I think when we don’t know what to do it’s wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply.”

“Lord keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.”

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