I never hold a grudge.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

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

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

I think and that is all that I am.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

I let the American people down.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

I can handle pain.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

I think I’ve really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I’ve put it behind me for the time being.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

Money does not change people, people change.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.