Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

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

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

I’m totally myself.

I really concentrate on what’s on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

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

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

We may define therapy as a search for value.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

When I was growing up, I wasn’t an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

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

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.