Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

I don’t like being alone.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

What you are comes to you.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

We were poor, but we smiled.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.