People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.
Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.
You have to be intimate with a person to know that person.
Talk with your daughters, Play with your sons. You need to be a better friend to them than anyone else. This society offers lots of evil friends. Before they make those kinds of friends, they need to find their best friend in you.
Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.
In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.
Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!
There's absolutely no one in the world that can tell you can't do something. You're the only person that can set that limitation.
Nothing in life is promised except death.
I’m a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it’s valuable. My husband used to say I look at a piece of fabric and listen to the threads. It tells me a story. It sings me a song. I have to get a physical reaction when I buy something. A coup de foudre – a bolt of lightning. It’s fun to get knocked out that way!
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
You are an eternal being now on the pathway of endless unfoldment, never less but always more yourself. Life is not static. It is forever dynamic, forever creatingnot something done and finished, but something alive, awake and aware. There is something within you that sings the song of eternity. Listen to it.
When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.
I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.
My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.
It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov rifles that are issued to prisoners upon their incarceration.
Let yourself be the person you've secretly always wanted to be
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.
My third grade teacher called my mother and said, 'Ms. Cox, your son is going to end up in New Orleans in a dress if we don't get him into therapy.' And wouldn't you know, just last week I spoke at Tulane University, and I wore a lovely green and black dress.
Let your light shine today, and let your personality blossom, too. You don't have to be a people-pleaser, just a people-lover.
A person has to keep something to herself or you're life is just a layout in a magazine.
If you can't do anything about it then let it go. Don't be a prisoner to things you can't change.
