I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

The only shame is to have none.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

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

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

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.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

What is true belongs to me!

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

I’m not really book-smart.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

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

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

Touring is hard on the body.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

The older you get, the better you get.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

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

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

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

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.