A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

When I was growing up, I wasn’t an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Endorsements are a reward for good performance on the field, and the commitments made after signing them need to be done.

Success is not a stop sign.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

When we played softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

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.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

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.

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.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

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

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.