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

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

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

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

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.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

I think I have always had a little humor.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.