Lauryn Hill

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.

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

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

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’.

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

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

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

Best friends that pick wedgies together stay besties for life!

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. That is very serious!

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles… but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief -a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.