I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

The more you know the less you need to say.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

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

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

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

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.