Famous Quotes

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

Thoughts may come and persist in staying. But thoughts that are not put into word or action die unborn!

When the day comes when you don’t believe in yourself there’s the door, get the hell out.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

Haters are just confused admirers because they can't figure out the reason why everyone loves you.

Success isn't owned. It's leased and rent is due every day.

Day and night, meditate forever on the Lord.

Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

Had a dream, I was King, I woke up, still King

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward.

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.

Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.

True love is so hard to find, and they say that once you found it you lost your mind.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Do not hate what you do not know, for the greater part of knowledge consists of what you do not know.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex

Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

There's never an end for the sea.

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

If you want to change the future, then you are going to have to trouble the present.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

All that you are seeking is also seeking you.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.

If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper.

Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.

A man who doesn't think differently from his time and environment can't grow beyond his time and environment.

If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.

My message to women: Do what makes you feel good, because there'll always be someone who thinks you should do it differently. Whether your choices are hits or misses, at least they're your own.

Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.

No matter what I say, honestly, people would only judge me the way they want to.