Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

I’m afraid to fail again.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

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

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.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

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

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

I can express myself.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.