First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

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.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit ‚how-to-parent‘ strategies both seductive and dangerous.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

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.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

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

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

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

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

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!

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Certainly I’m not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I’m a sponge. I’ve always been a sponge.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.