It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

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 have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Men must know their limitations.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

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.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

God always wants us to be growing.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

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.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

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

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.