I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

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

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

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

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

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

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

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

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

The McLaren prizes can only help me in my quest to ultimately reach Formula One.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.