I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It’s not heavy. I don’t have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

I don’t crave applause. I’m not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I’m much more alive at home, I think.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna – that’s an idea of who I am.

I never fall in love.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

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.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

There’s Madeleine, and then there’s ‚Madeleine Albright‘. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become ‚Madeleine Albright‘ it doesn’t go away.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

If you feel that there’s the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can’t, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you’d be a very strange person indeed.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

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.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

O, had I but followed the arts!

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

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

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

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

Life is too short for long-term grudges.