When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

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.

I think that I’ve had a very strange life.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

One must steer, not talk.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

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

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

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

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.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

I think and that is all that I am.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

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

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

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

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.