Archived Quotes

Your talent is God's gift to you.

What you do with it is your gift back to God

Leo Buscaglia

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see

the miraculous in the common.

Show me something I haven't seen before.

Every experiment,

by multitudes or by individuals,

that has a sensual and selfish aim,

will fail.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

I want to take Justin Bieber for a month

and just lock him up in a cage where we sit and make music.

He's one of the most successful people in the world,

but his music could be so much tighter.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

You have to be willing to fail to succeed.

Satire is meant to hurt those who deserve it,

and amuse those who don’t.

Vulnerability is strength,

not weakness.

You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things

you buy every day.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Your technique is atrocious.

In the end,

you’re measured not by how much you undertake but

by what you finally accomplish.

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana,

in my eighth year... It was a wild region,

with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods.

There I grew up... Of course when I came of age,

I did not know much.

Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher...

but that was all.

I'm black,

I don't feel burdened by it and,

I don't think it's a huge responsibility,

It's part of who I am,

It does not define me.

The greatest gift of life is friendship and I have received it

I had plenty of pimples as a kid.

One day I fell asleep in the library.

When I woke up,

a blind man was reading my face.

Laugh,

and the world laughs with you;

weep,

and you weep alone.