Lauryn Hill

I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth, who won’t accept deception instead of what is truth.

The only wealth I have to give is not material and if you need much more than that, I’m not available.

How you gonna win if you ain’t right within?

That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub ‘Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you’. She says, ‘Toughen up, this is reality we are living in’.

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

Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help: the rest is cruelty, not justice.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

In his private heart no man much respects himself.

Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

Always do what you are afraid to do.