Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Humble people ask for help.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

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

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

I don’t regret anything.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

The only shame is to have none.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

A woman has the age she deserves.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

My life has been very full.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

I’m perpetually lonely.

Confine yourself to the present.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

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