What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

God has entrusted me with myself.

Choose people who lift you up.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

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.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Never complain and never explain.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

Such as we are made of, such we be.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

When I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

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.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.