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"The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their destruction. And certainly they would never consent to be so used were they not deceived. To avoid this they should be instructed to a certain degree."
"The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people."
"Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people."
"On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?"
"I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me."
"Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic."
"I understand that I have a certain look that can be used to my advantage. I know the power of that when I walk into a room and talk to people, and I can use it as an advertising tool. Now I am actually selling me, my face, my thoughts. So I am my guy."
"I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things."
"People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever."
"Give people more than they expect, and do it cheerfully."
"Engaging people is about meeting their needs, not yours"
"The ability to connect and influence people, that's the job of a leader. And we're all leaders at some level."
"Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up."
"People act on the outside the way they feel on the inside."
"There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education."
"An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible."
"There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I'm the worst. I'm the worst at that."
"If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don't stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you'll never see it again."
"No one is exempt from trials and tribulations. In fact, this is often what happens to people God loves very much, for it is part of God’s often mysterious and good plan for turning us into something great."
"Going to the gym was never about 'working out' like it is for most people. To me, It was a matter of life or death. It was either me or the weights-and I was going to win. I've always had that competitive streak, whether it was in the gym, on the stage, or In anything else I did."
