I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

No one but a fool is always right.

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

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

I’ve learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you’d talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

I’ve always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

We all have done something unethical.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

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.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

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

I like pushing boundaries.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.