Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

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!

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

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

I want people to draw strength from me.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

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

Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

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.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

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

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

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.