I was just a kid and I didn't have a dad. That's hard, because when you're a kid, you blame yourself for everything. And I blamed myself for him not being around, for my parents not being together.

Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.

Paulo Coelho

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,Yet Grace must still look so.

William Shakespeare

You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.

Susan Powter

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

Stokely Carmichael

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Max de Pree

I've been in a car three or four times when it filled with water and it's not a comfortable feeling.

Richard Hammond

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

Olive Schreiner

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes

Victor Hugo

Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Tobias S. Gibson

I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars.

Henry David Thoreau