I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.
It was my mom who told me, "Ernie, if you make even one person happy with your smile or a funny thing you did every day, you'll have accomplished a great deal." And that's all I've ever tried to do.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Surround yourself with those who won’t compete but will revel in your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities.
To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.
The greatest are an inspiration for all the kids who wake up early in the morning. Everyone watches you, is inspired by you and wants to be you. So you influence society. That's what being more than an athlete means. I want more kids to have that opportunity. I want everybody to start with the same chance.
I want to be remembered as a great friend, an outstanding father, an amazing husband, and a good soul who always strived to serve God and man. And during that time of service on earth, I would like people to think, "He brought joy, love, opportunity, and fulfillment to millions of people."
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
First Fruits has impacted my life personally and the lives of countless others!
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
I've helped save so many families with my music and inspire so many people.
I look up to my father in every way.
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs.
All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.
If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.
You’ll never regret being a good friend.
Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
In the case of Papa Pope, certainly he's making his daughter's world and the world of the republic a much better place.
I've got big homies that done been through the same thing I've been through and they made it out, changed their life and they come back and snatch young cats up and lecture them and let them know right way to do it.
I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
