You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

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

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Observe all men, thyself most.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

One man with courage is a majority.

Young people can create beautiful things.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

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.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

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

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.