Famous Quotes

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

Do not go to bed until you have gone over the day three times in your mind. What wrong did I do? What good did I accomplish? What did I forget to do?

When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

Whatever is not done by the permission of Allah will not happen, and what is not done for the sake of Allah will not benefit or remain.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.

To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.

We cannot free ourselves unless we move forward united in a single desire.

There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it.

Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them.

Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it!

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.

If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside.

Beloved, it is not our long prayers but our believing God that gets the answer.

Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.

The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me.

I am the punishment of God. If you have not committed sins then God wouldn't have sent me.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.

You know, what's interesting is, being your own self is kind of a blur.

I have been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think I'm imitating Hitler.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

There's more to me than just this jersey I wear, and that's Christ living inside of me.

What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.

I am a Christian. He who answers thus has declared everything at once-his country, profession, family; the believer belongs to no city on earth but to the heavenly Jerusalem.

When a silhouette or shape is as beautiful as it is functional and relevant, that's true luxury.

Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop.

Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

Never say that you regret something, because at one point in your life, you wanted it.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.