My future is righteousness.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

I give opinions, not advice.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

What is true belongs to me!

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

Never complain and never explain.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

My life is my argument.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.