It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

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.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Every summer’s mine.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.