I let the American people down.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

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

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

The older you get, the better you get.

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

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

God has entrusted me with myself.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

You can’t do something forever.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

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

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.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

I never expected to be anybody important.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

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

None but ourselves can free our minds.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?