I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

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

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

There are no second acts in American lives.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

When I was growing up, I wasn’t an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

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 most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

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.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

What you are comes to you.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

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

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

Nobody knows me.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

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