Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

I’ve learned never to say never.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

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

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

To create something you must be something.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

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!

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.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

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

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

And winning is a huge thing for me.