Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

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

I think everyone should be with who they love.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

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.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

I owe my solitude to other people.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

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.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

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

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

There’s nothing I have to hide or defend. I’m gonna live my life. And there are times when people wanna try to attack me, and I don’t know why, but they will. And that’s okay.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

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

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.