I am who I am today because of my mother.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Love is a state of being.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

I’m happy that I have my family, and I’m happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing’s changed, really.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

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

My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, ‚So what’s the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.‘ Most of her lifetime, it’s true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

In the real world, children love me.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.