I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

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.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

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.

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

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

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.

I’m perpetually lonely.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

Our God is a forgiving God.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

I owe my solitude to other people.

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Solitude is independence.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

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.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

I made my fair share of mistakes.