Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

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.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

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.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

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

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

As you think, so shall you become.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn’t done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

I’m totally myself.

Fear is exciting for me.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.