I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

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

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

I’m a genetic optimist.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

‚Lives‘ is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material – and after that, you’re not sure what you can do.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

I’ve used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool… but that’s just natural.

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

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.

I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.