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

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

I owe my solitude to other people.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

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

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

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.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.