Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

You can be happy where you are.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

You fail only if you stop writing.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

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.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

Before all else, be armed.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

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

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‚Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.‘ See the positive in negative events.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

I’m so wrapped up in my work that it’s often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

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.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

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

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.