I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

Travel teaches toleration.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Observe all men, thyself most.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

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

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

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.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

I’m afraid to fail again.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

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

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Never mistake motion for action.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.