Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

Disagreement is something normal.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

I believe time wounds all heels.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

The people in my songs are all me.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.