Lauryn Hill

We don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

Wisdom is better than silver and gold. I was hopeless, now I’m on hope road.

Don’t be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

Be better. Be better at everything. Be better fathers… Men can be better husbands, which is – be a part of your family’s life. Do the dishes. Don’t babysit your children. You don’t babysit your own children. Be engaged. Don’t just think going to work and coming home makes you a man. Being a father, being engaged, all that stuff is important. Be a better employer. When you are sitting at a seat of power at a table of any kind and you look around you just see you, it’s just you and a bunch of men around a table, on a golf course, making deals, and you allow that to happen, and you’re okay with that – be better.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights.

I was brought up to hate and fear liberty. I came to love it. That is the secret of my whole career.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.