Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

Myths can’t be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

I want people to draw strength from me.

What is true belongs to me!

When written in Chinese, the word ‚crisis‘ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

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

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Always do whatever’s next.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

It is always your next move.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

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.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.