"Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become."
Angelina Jolie
Delivered: January 7, 2024
"What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things."
Margaret Mead
Delivered: February 1, 2024
"I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child."
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Delivered: January 2, 2024
"Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time."
George W. Bush
Delivered: January 24, 2024
"You can't buy swag."
Travis Scott
Delivered: January 13, 2024
"I feel as though, if you're able to control your dreams, you have more power and control over your mind, like you could reach more areas of your mind. Therefore, I feel like it creates the ability for you to achieve more things in reality."
Juice Wrld
Delivered: January 8, 2024
"The Muslims are, as a group, attacking people because under the Quran, there is the house of Islam, and outside of it, there's the house of war."
Alex Jones
Delivered: February 5, 2024
"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
William James
Delivered: January 9, 2024
"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."
William Tecumseh Sherman
Delivered: January 18, 2024
"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."
Emily Dickinson
Delivered: January 26, 2024
"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."
Harry S Truman
Delivered: February 4, 2024
"Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference."
Lou Holtz
Delivered: January 12, 2024
"In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
Andy Warhol
Delivered: February 3, 2024
"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes."
Peter Drucker
Delivered: January 23, 2024
"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you."
Calvin Coolidge
Delivered: January 25, 2024
"I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised."
Kim Kardashian
Delivered: January 5, 2024
"I'm not the best person at putting words together. I can't give you the melody. But I might inspire somebody."
Meek Mill
Delivered: January 21, 2024
"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."
Fran Lebowitz
Delivered: January 6, 2024
"I like to look cool and dress nice. Lil Uzi is a rock star. Just know that."
Lil Uzi Vert
Delivered: January 29, 2024
"A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it."
Phil McGraw
Delivered: January 14, 2024
"I lead a very regimented life. I take excruciating care of myself: I take a lot of vitamins, get enough sleep, don't drink apart from a glass of wine occasionally."
Angela Lansbury
Delivered: January 30, 2024
"Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time."
H. P. Lovecraft
Delivered: February 6, 2024
"I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time."
Seth MacFarlane
Delivered: February 8, 2024
"I am so grateful for all the love and support I've had from people around the world."
Katy Perry
Delivered: January 11, 2024
"We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims."
R. Buckminster Fuller
Delivered: January 15, 2024
"When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same."
Toni Morrison
Delivered: January 27, 2024
"If you've seen the 'Shawshank Redemption' and if you think Morgan Freeman's character should have died in prison, vote for the other person. And if you think, and you believe in redemption, and a second chance, you know, I'm your candidate."
John Fetterman
Delivered: February 2, 2024
"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams."
Jonas Salk
Delivered: January 19, 2024
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
John Wooden
Delivered: January 4, 2024
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."
John Dewey
Delivered: January 10, 2024
"Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain."
Richard M. Nixon
Delivered: January 16, 2024
"Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others."
Amelia Earhart
Delivered: January 20, 2024
"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there."
Richard P. Feynman
Delivered: January 3, 2024
"Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected."
Mark Zuckerberg
Delivered: January 17, 2024
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
Isaac Asimov
Delivered: January 22, 2024
"I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'"
Demetri Martin
Delivered: January 28, 2024
"Sex is God's joke on human beings."
Bette Davis
Delivered: January 31, 2024
"If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword."
Andrew Jackson
Delivered: February 7, 2024
"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."
B. F. Skinner
Delivered: February 14, 2024
"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."
Bruce Lee
Delivered: March 26, 2024
"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."
P. J. O'Rourke
Delivered: February 13, 2024
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
Helen Keller
Delivered: March 19, 2024
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Delivered: March 29, 2024
"My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.'"
Mitch Hedberg
Delivered: April 6, 2024
"I can admit and say that I have feelings."
Juice Wrld
Delivered: July 26, 2024
"Find out what your gift is and nurture it."
Katy Perry
Delivered: July 29, 2024
"Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe."
Phil McGraw
Delivered: July 31, 2024
"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses."
Andrew Jackson
Delivered: August 25, 2024
"You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball."
Bobby Knight
Delivered: September 2, 2024
"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."
Ansel Adams
Delivered: September 14, 2024
"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."
Maya Angelou
Delivered: September 29, 2024
"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."
Abraham Lincoln
Delivered: September 30, 2024
"My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation."
Al Yankovic
Delivered: February 28, 2024
"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."
Washington Irving
Delivered: March 5, 2024
"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
Anais Nin
Delivered: March 10, 2024
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
Abraham Lincoln
Delivered: March 14, 2024
"Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time."
Steven Wright
Delivered: March 25, 2024
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
Thomas Jefferson
Delivered: April 1, 2024
"Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success."
Dwayne Johnson
Delivered: April 16, 2024
"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."
Muhammad Ali
Delivered: April 22, 2024
"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."
Billy Graham
Delivered: June 3, 2024
"The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness."
Abraham Maslow
Delivered: June 6, 2024
"The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society."
Noam Chomsky
Delivered: June 7, 2024
"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."
Oprah Winfrey
Delivered: June 19, 2024
"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for."
Ray Bradbury
Delivered: June 26, 2024
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
Henry David Thoreau
Delivered: October 3, 2024
"You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive."
Maya Angelou
Delivered: March 13, 2024
"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
Theodore Roosevelt
Delivered: March 18, 2024
"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
Groucho Marx
Delivered: March 23, 2024
"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."
Zig Ziglar
Delivered: April 3, 2024
"Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature."
Marilyn Monroe
Delivered: April 18, 2024
"It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized."
Wayne Dyer
Delivered: May 3, 2024
"We don't let criminals serve in our office as president."
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Delivered: May 8, 2024
"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."
Dale Carnegie
Delivered: June 30, 2024
"Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Delivered: July 2, 2024
"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."
Frank Lloyd Wright
Delivered: July 9, 2024
"Integrity is the essence of everything successful."
R. Buckminster Fuller
Delivered: August 2, 2024
"If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories."
Richard M. Nixon
Delivered: August 3, 2024
"Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others."
Orson Welles
Delivered: August 27, 2024
"But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it."
Morgan Freeman
Delivered: September 8, 2024
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
Mark Twain
Delivered: September 28, 2024
"I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live."
Kanye West
Delivered: October 1, 2024
"It is better to be alone than in bad company."
George Washington
Delivered: March 31, 2024
"I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do."
J. Cole
Delivered: April 8, 2024
"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
T. S. Eliot
Delivered: April 21, 2024
"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser."
Vince Lombardi
Delivered: April 24, 2024
"I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I'm doing, you know what I mean? And I think what's gon' separate whoever's gon go for something, that you ain't gon' quit."
Nipsey Hussle
Delivered: May 17, 2024
"The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don't know."
John Kennedy
Delivered: May 21, 2024
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
George S. Patton
Delivered: June 1, 2024
"Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands."
Clint Eastwood
Delivered: June 12, 2024
"Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use."
Charles M. Schulz
Delivered: July 1, 2024
"I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places."
Henny Youngman
Delivered: July 11, 2024
"I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
Woody Allen
Delivered: July 15, 2024
"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."
Fran Lebowitz
Delivered: July 24, 2024
"Everybody just has different steps in their life that they take to do what they should."
Travis Scott
Delivered: August 1, 2024
"Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is."
Demetri Martin
Delivered: August 15, 2024
"Land really is the best art."
Andy Warhol
Delivered: August 21, 2024
"Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished."
Ulysses S. Grant
Delivered: September 9, 2024
"I dare not stay home while Quichuas perish. What if the well-filled church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptures, Moses, and the prophets, and a whole lot more. Their condemnation is written on their bank books and in the dust on their Bible covers."
Jim Elliot
Delivered: September 22, 2024
"The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit."
Morgan Freeman
Delivered: February 21, 2024
"In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?"
Carl Rogers
Delivered: February 10, 2024
"I honor the sanctity of all religions - I'm not here to put them down. But the only religion that I personally embrace is the religion of kindness."
Leslie Jordan
Delivered: March 16, 2024
"In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself."
Post Malone
Delivered: February 24, 2024
"There are no second acts in American lives."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Delivered: February 11, 2024
"Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win."
Bobby Knight
Delivered: February 15, 2024
"Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference."
Barack Obama
Delivered: March 22, 2024
"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."
Walt Whitman
Delivered: April 2, 2024
"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."
Napoleon Hill
Delivered: April 10, 2024
"Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake."
W. C. Fields
Delivered: May 12, 2024
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
Yogi Berra
Delivered: May 14, 2024
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
Robert Frost
Delivered: June 2, 2024
"I'm not a follower. I'm a leader. And anyone who speaks their mind is always criticised."
Tyler, The Creator
Delivered: June 17, 2024
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Delivered: June 23, 2024
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
Elie Wiesel
Delivered: July 6, 2024
"I am not a black artist, I am an artist."
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Delivered: July 19, 2024
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
John Dewey
Delivered: July 28, 2024
"I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."
Sylvia Plath
Delivered: September 17, 2024
"A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man."
e. e. cummings
Delivered: September 25, 2024
"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
Theodore Roosevelt
Delivered: October 4, 2024
"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."
Bill Gates
Delivered: March 27, 2024
"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."
William Arthur Ward
Delivered: April 29, 2024
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
Hunter S. Thompson
Delivered: April 30, 2024
"I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."
John D. Rockefeller
Delivered: May 16, 2024
"If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail."
Kobe Bryant
Delivered: May 26, 2024
"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."
Kurt Vonnegut
Delivered: June 18, 2024
"My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it."
Paul Walker
Delivered: June 25, 2024
"You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try."
Dolly Parton
Delivered: July 3, 2024
"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry."
Richard P. Feynman
Delivered: July 21, 2024
"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want."
William Tecumseh Sherman
Delivered: August 5, 2024
"I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts New England region is arguably the hardest dialect to nail."
Seth MacFarlane
Delivered: August 26, 2024
"When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic."
Carl Rogers
Delivered: August 28, 2024
"If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by."
Julia Roberts
Delivered: September 5, 2024
"I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!"
Christopher McCandless
Delivered: September 12, 2024
"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
Anais Nin
Delivered: September 26, 2024
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
Groucho Marx
Delivered: October 9, 2024
"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
Bruce Lee
Delivered: October 12, 2024
"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
e. e. cummings
Delivered: March 9, 2024
"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat."
Ronald Reagan
Delivered: March 20, 2024
"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"
Edgar Allan Poe
Delivered: April 7, 2024
"Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does."
Warren Buffett
Delivered: April 14, 2024
"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling."
Thomas Sowell
Delivered: April 20, 2024
"What's dangerous is not to evolve."
Jeff Bezos
Delivered: May 7, 2024
"I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments."
Jim Morrison
Delivered: May 31, 2024
"The only time I'm not Hulk Hogan is when I'm behind closed doors because as soon as I walk out the front door, and somebody says hello to me, I can't just say 'hello' like Terry. When they see me, they see the blond hair, the mustache, and the bald head, they instantly think Hulk Hogan."
Hulk Hogan
Delivered: June 8, 2024
"To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States."
George W. Bush
Delivered: August 11, 2024
"Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody."
Angela Lansbury
Delivered: August 17, 2024
"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Delivered: August 29, 2024
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
P. J. O'Rourke
Delivered: August 31, 2024
"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time."
Elbert Hubbard
Delivered: September 7, 2024
"A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween."
Erma Bombeck
Delivered: September 20, 2024
"The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character."
Lucy Larcom
Delivered: September 27, 2024
"I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five."
Steven Wright
Delivered: October 11, 2024
"We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve."
Bill Gates
Delivered: October 13, 2024
"Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Delivered: February 17, 2024
"Happiness is only real when shared."
Christopher McCandless
Delivered: February 25, 2024
"I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done."
Robert Downey, Jr.
Delivered: February 26, 2024
"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds."
Norman Vincent Peale
Delivered: February 29, 2024
"All I want kids to know is that I see them for who they are and not who everyone thinks they are."
Jason Reynolds
Delivered: March 3, 2024
"I feel beautiful without makeup on, but when I do put makeup on, it just gives me this extra pop."
Cardi B
Delivered: May 24, 2024
"When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother."
Rodney Dangerfield
Delivered: June 4, 2024
"There's a difference between fair game and playing games."
Hillary Clinton
Delivered: June 9, 2024
"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."
Neil Armstrong
Delivered: July 4, 2024
"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
Bette Davis
Delivered: August 18, 2024
"The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
H. P. Lovecraft
Delivered: August 24, 2024
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
Robert A. Heinlein
Delivered: September 3, 2024
"I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life."
Jack Kerouac
Delivered: September 10, 2024
"I'd do anything at the right time, and I would also do things at the wrong time if they felt right."
Virgil Abloh
Delivered: September 18, 2024
"Everybody needs somebody."
Mahalia Jackson
Delivered: September 23, 2024
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Delivered: October 15, 2024
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Delivered: October 16, 2024
"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?"
Jack Kerouac
Delivered: February 23, 2024
"A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us."
Lucy Larcom
Delivered: March 11, 2024
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
Will Rogers
Delivered: April 12, 2024
"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
Frederick Douglass
Delivered: May 6, 2024
"There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."
Ernest Hemingway
Delivered: May 10, 2024
"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."
Stephen Covey
Delivered: May 11, 2024
"Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character."
Les Brown
Delivered: May 27, 2024
"I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story."
Elvis Presley
Delivered: June 11, 2024
"You aren't learning anything when you're talking."
Lyndon B. Johnson
Delivered: June 13, 2024
"Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest."
Robert Downey, Jr.
Delivered: September 13, 2024
"My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent."
Ulysses S. Grant
Delivered: February 22, 2024
"Well done is better than well said."
Benjamin Franklin
Delivered: March 21, 2024
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
Henry Ford
Delivered: April 13, 2024
"All I can do is be me, whoever that is."
Bob Dylan
Delivered: April 25, 2024
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
James Baldwin
Delivered: May 18, 2024
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
Carl Sagan
Delivered: May 30, 2024
"I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do."
Johnny Depp
Delivered: June 14, 2024
"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony."
Thomas Merton
Delivered: July 12, 2024
"If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove."
Timothy Leary
Delivered: July 17, 2024
"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."
John Wooden
Delivered: July 22, 2024
"A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa."
Mark Zuckerberg
Delivered: August 4, 2024
"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next."
Jonas Salk
Delivered: August 6, 2024
"Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another."
Toni Morrison
Delivered: August 14, 2024
"To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'"
Christopher Hitchens
Delivered: August 30, 2024
"There's always gonna be setbacks; there's always gonna be knockdowns. There's always gonna be people telling you, 'Hey, you suck!'"
Post Malone
Delivered: September 11, 2024
"Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me."
Al Yankovic
Delivered: September 15, 2024
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
Robert A. Heinlein
Delivered: February 16, 2024
"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
Ansel Adams
Delivered: February 27, 2024
"Don't think in the morning. That's a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don't think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some."
Jocko Willink
Delivered: March 8, 2024
"People always tell you, 'Be humble. Be humble.' When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!"
Kanye West
Delivered: March 15, 2024
"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"
George Carlin
Delivered: April 26, 2024
"Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy."
Adam Sandler
Delivered: May 19, 2024
"Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Delivered: June 20, 2024
"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."
Milton Friedman
Delivered: June 29, 2024
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."
Emily Dickinson
Delivered: August 13, 2024
"I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing."
Kendrick Lamar
Delivered: September 6, 2024
"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."
Ronald Reagan
Delivered: October 6, 2024
"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."
Steve Jobs
Delivered: October 10, 2024
"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
Erma Bombeck
Delivered: March 4, 2024
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
Dr. Seuss
Delivered: April 4, 2024
"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."
Walt Disney
Delivered: April 28, 2024
"There is no 'i' in team but there is in win."
Michael Jordan
Delivered: May 1, 2024
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
H. L. Mencken
Delivered: May 2, 2024
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
James Madison
Delivered: May 4, 2024
"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."
Jim Rohn
Delivered: May 9, 2024
"I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter."
Jay-Z
Delivered: May 29, 2024
"There is no substitute for hard work."
Thomas A. Edison
Delivered: June 5, 2024
"There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle."
Deepak Chopra
Delivered: June 21, 2024
"Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday."
John Wayne
Delivered: June 24, 2024
"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."
John Muir
Delivered: July 10, 2024
"Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world."
Carrie Fisher
Delivered: July 13, 2024
"People say money ain't nothing; money is basically everything."
Meek Mill
Delivered: August 8, 2024
"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
Calvin Coolidge
Delivered: August 12, 2024
"You are not going to silence me. You are not going to silence America. You are literally like a little gangster thug. Rubio just threatened to silence me."
Alex Jones
Delivered: August 23, 2024
"I'm Southern, I'm gay, I'm little - I get Ma'am'd a lot on the phone."
Leslie Jordan
Delivered: October 2, 2024
"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
Benjamin Franklin
Delivered: October 7, 2024
"The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good."
Joe Biden
Delivered: October 14, 2024
"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself."
Mark Twain
Delivered: March 12, 2024
"A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me."
Christopher Hitchens
Delivered: February 12, 2024
"Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck."
Orson Welles
Delivered: February 9, 2024
"You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness."
Julia Roberts
Delivered: February 18, 2024
"If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money."
Snoop Dogg
Delivered: April 9, 2024
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
Kurt Cobain
Delivered: April 11, 2024
"I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness."
Denzel Washington
Delivered: April 15, 2024
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls."
Joseph Campbell
Delivered: May 13, 2024
"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Delivered: May 20, 2024
"Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose."
Robin Williams
Delivered: May 25, 2024
"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
W. Edwards Deming
Delivered: June 15, 2024
"I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover."
Matthew McConaughey
Delivered: June 27, 2024
"There are no right answers to wrong questions."
Ursula K. Le Guin
Delivered: July 5, 2024
"I wake up every day, and I'm a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Delivered: July 20, 2024
"I didn't love school."
Kim Kardashian
Delivered: July 23, 2024
"I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world."
Angelina Jolie
Delivered: July 25, 2024
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
William James
Delivered: July 27, 2024
"Grief is like mending a knee. You can mend the knee and make it function, but the knee never actually heals."
Jason Reynolds
Delivered: September 19, 2024
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
Helen Keller
Delivered: October 5, 2024
"If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost."
Barack Obama
Delivered: October 8, 2024
"Lord, make my way prosperous, not that I achieve high station, but that my life may be an exhibit to the value of knowing God."
Jim Elliot
Delivered: March 6, 2024
"The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday."
Paris Hilton
Delivered: May 5, 2024
"All these older kids here, and I'm the only one from a town that's so small, if everyone breathed at the same time, you'd run out of oxygen. Man, there is nothing there."
Herschel Walker
Delivered: May 23, 2024
"If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with."
Michael Jackson
Delivered: June 22, 2024
"Being humble matters."
Kevin Hart
Delivered: June 28, 2024
"Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated."
Lou Holtz
Delivered: July 30, 2024
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said."
Peter Drucker
Delivered: August 10, 2024
"I got different moods. Like, if I'm in a good mood, I listen to 'Up' by Thug. If I'm not in a good mood, I'll listen to 'King TROUP' - that's a real emotional one."
Lil Uzi Vert
Delivered: August 16, 2024
"I learned the value of hard work by working hard."
Margaret Mead
Delivered: August 19, 2024
"I don't want to be something that just comes and goes."
Kendrick Lamar
Delivered: February 19, 2024
"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
Sylvia Plath
Delivered: March 1, 2024
"Art is made in hindsight."
Virgil Abloh
Delivered: March 2, 2024
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Delivered: March 30, 2024
"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."
John F. Kennedy
Delivered: April 17, 2024
"Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people."
Mike Tyson
Delivered: April 19, 2024
"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them."
John C. Maxwell
Delivered: April 23, 2024
"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Delivered: April 27, 2024
"I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect."
Taylor Swift
Delivered: May 15, 2024
"I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist."
Future
Delivered: May 28, 2024
"Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you."
Mae West
Delivered: June 10, 2024
"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence."
Colin Powell
Delivered: June 16, 2024
"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive."
Jack London
Delivered: July 7, 2024
"I'm my own boss, you know?"
Lil Durk
Delivered: July 14, 2024
"Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life."
Joel Osteen
Delivered: July 16, 2024
"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."
Amelia Earhart
Delivered: August 7, 2024
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
Isaac Asimov
Delivered: August 9, 2024
"A place deserves somewhere to eat lunch."
John Fetterman
Delivered: August 20, 2024
"The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount."
B. F. Skinner
Delivered: September 1, 2024
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Delivered: September 4, 2024
"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart."
Washington Irving
Delivered: September 21, 2024
"One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening."
Jocko Willink
Delivered: September 24, 2024
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
Elbert Hubbard
Delivered: February 20, 2024
"You're blessed if you have the strength to work."
Mahalia Jackson
Delivered: March 7, 2024
"Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify."
Henry David Thoreau
Delivered: March 17, 2024
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."
Steve Jobs
Delivered: March 24, 2024
"If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn't be hunting. If you can't get the deer in 3 shots, you shouldn't be hunting. You are an embarrassment."
Joe Biden
Delivered: March 28, 2024
"I've been through all the bad parts of the streets."
Lil Baby
Delivered: April 5, 2024
"The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one."
Alexander Hamilton
Delivered: May 22, 2024
"I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?"
Eminem
Delivered: July 8, 2024
"You've got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That's it; that's the way we move forward. That's how we make progress for ourselves and for our country."
Michelle Obama
Delivered: July 18, 2024
"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."
Harry S Truman
Delivered: August 22, 2024
"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism."
Norman Vincent Peale
Delivered: September 16, 2024
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."
George Washington
Delivered: October 17, 2024
"The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore."
P.J. O'Rourke
Delivered: October 18, 2024