I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

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

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

I’m not a bad person.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

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

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

No driver is perfect.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

My life is my argument.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

My life has been very full.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

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

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

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.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.