Their Quotes

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.