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.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

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.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

We are what we believe we are.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

In my relationship with God, I’ve learned that if I follow a ‚formula‘ for how I spend my time with Him, then I’m just accomplishing a checklist of things I feel obligated to do to please Him. This makes my spiritual life more about doing what I need to do to fulfill an obligation than something meaningful.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

I’m not who people expect me to be. I’m not Henry Kissinger.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

I never expected to be anybody important.

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.