In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

I never expected to be anybody important.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

For an author, the nice characters aren’t much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They’re doing it for themselves.

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

I’m not a natural joiner.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

I’ve learned never to say never.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

Solitude is independence.