If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

I kinda live where I find myself.

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

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

I sometimes ask people, ‚Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you’re having, not the emotions that you’re having, but the very presence of your very being?‘ You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Power is competence.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

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

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

Dream and you shall become.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

I am just one human being.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Forget the past.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

I always make my dreams into goals.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

I’m not very articulate.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

No man was ever great by imitation.

Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

I never make conscious decisions.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.