For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

I think it does Discworld good if I don’t write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

I hate to be smart.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

I thought one should have the attitude of ‚What do you care what other people think!‘

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

I’m not a very creative person, you know? I’m not really an art person. I’m not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what’s going to happen in my life.

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

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

‚Two Voices,‘ from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and ‚copied it out.‘

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

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.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.