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.‘

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

God’s first creature, which was light.

God is everywhere.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

We are eternal beings – spirit children of heavenly parents.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

The ‚kingdom of Heaven‘ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‚upon the earth‘ or ‚after death.‘

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

I’m not a bad person.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

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.

I came up from a difficult background.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

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

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

It’s a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.