If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

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.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

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.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

Let go of yesterday.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

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

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

Nobody is my boss.

One of the things people don’t really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they’re celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.