One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

All of our problems start in our minds.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.

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 am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Character is power.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

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 just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

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

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

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

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Never complain and never explain.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

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

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.