I like criticism. It makes you strong.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

I don’t feel I’ve had a decent critic ever on the East coast.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

I’ve learned never to say never.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

I never expected to be anybody important.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

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

I defy gravity.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.