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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'

Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over which you actually do have control.

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.

I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.

Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

I hope my music sets up the platform for me to be able to do lots of things - to have a cowboy-boot line, maybe, or do a perfume or makeup deal.

There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters.

Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.

I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and fields, whose care and work hitherto hath been like bees, only to get honey to their own hive.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.