Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

Feminism… I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, ‚Free to be You and Me.‘

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

My life is my message.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

He who angers you conquers you.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

We work to become, not to acquire.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

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

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.