How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

I can handle pain.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

The self is hateful.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

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.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

I don’t have all the answers.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

If I can be a leader, I will.

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

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

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

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

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

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

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

Women don’t try to use me.