If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

Competition is a sin.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

I’m no genius.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

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

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

I think and that is all that I am.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

I want people to draw strength from me.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

No man is hurt but by himself.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

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.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

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.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

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.