If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

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

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

To create something you must be something.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

The doer alone learneth.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

I have no human feelings.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

Everybody has a purpose.

I’m about being the best.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

I can express myself.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

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.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.