That dog don’t hunt.
Stand up and walk out of your history.
I’ve talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they’re judged. They think they’re unattractive.
I think you’re running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, ‘Brace yourself honey, here I come!’
At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That’s wonderful, and I’m happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?
I’ve learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.
You don’t need a rope to pinch a stranger’s butt.
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words… the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by.
We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I’m going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that’s OK.
Life is a full-contact sport, and there’s a score up on the board.
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
I’m grateful for all the breaks and honors and opportunities I’ve had, but I always believe I won’t have it made until the humblest black kid in the most remote backwoods of America has it made.
I am what I am Are you what you are or What?
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.
