Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

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.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

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.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

It is always your next move.

We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

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

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

I’ve learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you’d talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

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

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating – is this the exact right mix? I think that’s – to me it’s anti-comedy. It’s more about PC-nonsense.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.