Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

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

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

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

The self is hateful.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning – like at 4:30 in the morning – you’re going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Hermits have no peer pressure.

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.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

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.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

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.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

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

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.