I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

I think that I’m perfect.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Be as you wish to seem.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

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

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

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.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

As you think, so shall you become.

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

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

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.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.