I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

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

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Some guys look better as they get older.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

We become what we repeatedly do.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

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.

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.

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 have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

I was becoming post-ideological.

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

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

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

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

You fail only if you stop writing.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

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

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.