I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

Men must know their limitations.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

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

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

You can’t go backward in life.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

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.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Law is always better than war.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Always remember that your calmness under fire is your best defense in any argument or discussion.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

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

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

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

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.