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.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

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.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

People don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

Power is competence.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

I have goals.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.