Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

I’ve been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I’ve learned to resist that.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

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

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

You are victors, not victims!

Hatred is self-punishment.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.

You have to be someone.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

I think and that is all that I am.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

I’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m dumb, I smell. Did I mention I’m stupid?

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I’m an old-fashioned mama’s boy.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.