I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

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

Solitude is independence.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

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

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

My whole life is a theater piece.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

We cannot learn men from books.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

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.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

As for my own views, they’ve of course evolved over the years. This conception of ‚renouncing beliefs‘ is very odd, as if we’re in some kind of religious cult. I ‚renounce beliefs‘ practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.