I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

My whole life is a theater piece.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

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

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

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

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

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

Little things affect little minds.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

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

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.