Richard Pryor

"Money can buy you things, but it can't buy you reasons to wake up in the morning."

"Health is the one thing you can't buy back once you lose it."

"Adventures are just comfortable lives interrupted by good decisions."

"The only thing imagination can't create is the limits people put on themselves."

"Leaders who talk more than they listen are just waiting for their turn to talk."

"Motivation fades; discipline lasts."

"Inspiration is contagious when it comes from someone who's actually lived."

"The solitude of success is heavier than the solitude of struggle."

"Family is where they gotta take you in, even when nobody else will."

"Love means you're willing to be destroyed and rebuilt."

"Faith is the willingness to leap without seeing the ground."

"Political change starts with personal change."

"War is peace's way of showing you what you're taking for granted."

"Gratitude is the antidote to entitlement."

"Creativity is rebellion against the expected."

"Justice without mercy is just revenge with rules."

"Literature shows you the parts of yourself you didn't know existed."

"Time heals nothing; it just gives you distance to see clearly."

"Philosophy is what you do when you can't do anything else."

"History is just a reminder of what happens when nobody learns the lesson."

"Technology is great until it starts thinking for you."

"Nature is the only truth that never lies or changes meaning."

"Science is just a fancy way of asking 'why?' repeatedly."

"Education should teach you how to question, not what to think."

"Change is the only thing that never changes."

"Courage is fear saying thank you to itself."

"Success is doing something so well they have to acknowledge it."

"Happiness is remembering that right now, you're alive."

"Life is what happens while you're waiting for something better."

"Freedom is just another word for knowing who you really are."