Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

The reward of suffering is experience.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

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

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

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.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

I think we need more idiot control.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

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.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

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!

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

Let go of yesterday.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

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

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

The most common criticism I get is that I’m being manipulated and you shouldn’t use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I can’t think for myself and so on. And I think that is so annoying! I’m also allowed to have a say – why shouldn’t I be able to form my own opinion and try to change people’s minds?