If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

I like to let things breathe.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

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

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

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

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

Even paranoids have real enemies.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.