Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

I’d always somehow felt slightly as if I’d been born in the wrong country.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

Go on thinking that you don’t need to be read and you’ll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won’t feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

My life is real.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

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

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.