I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

Choose people who lift you up.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

Libraries raised me.

I’ll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

What I love best in life is new starts.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

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

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

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 grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Man is not made for defeat.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

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

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

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

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.