"I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly."
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"Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream."
"For ecommerce, the most important thing is trust."
"The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve."
"A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time."
"Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have."
"Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves."
"It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered."
"To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid."
"Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have."
"Virtue is its own reward."
"What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision."
"All the political, social, and economic improvements, all the technical progress cannot have any regenerating significance, so long as our inner life remains as it is at present. The more the intelligence unveils and violates the secrets of Nature, the more the danger increases and the heart shrinks."
"Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'"
"I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so."
"I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me."
"I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle."
"Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results."
"The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side."
"Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession."