If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

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

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

Life well spent is long.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

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.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I’m talking about myself very directly.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

These are all personal crises, I’m sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It’s as simple as that.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

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.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

I can do whatever I want.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.