Choose people who lift you up.

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

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

There is no substitute for victory.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Money does not change people, people change.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

Never take anything for granted.