Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Boldness be my friend.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

I’ve learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you’d talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

I don’t have all the answers.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Bring them on.