I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

The self is hateful.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

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.

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

I don’t have all the answers.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

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.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

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

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

I kinda live where I find myself.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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