Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can’t not be what everyone says I am. But I don’t feel like an icon.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

Reactive people… are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

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

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Men must know their limitations.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

I’m filthy rich!

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

I am happy and I’m single.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Winning ‚Motor Trend‘ Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

I never hold a grudge.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

I love being busy.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

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.