I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I’m on form, I can sell anything.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

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

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

I don’t think I get angry.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

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

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I just want to be myself.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.