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

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

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

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

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

As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

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

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Enemies are so stimulating.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

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

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

Fear is exciting for me.

I’m a genetic optimist.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

I’ve learned never to say never.