In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

I’m about being the best.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Children make your life important.

No pressure, no diamonds.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

God always wants us to be growing.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Children always turn to the light.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

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.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

The honor of a nation is its life.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

It’s a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don’t sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.