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We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media.

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, they're doing their own challenges. It's back to cooking. And it's real cooking.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

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.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.