In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

Never complain and never explain.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

The way I try to represent my family and coaches, I think all are characteristics the league aspires to portray. That’s just who I am.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

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

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

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

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

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

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

God has entrusted me with myself.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

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

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.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

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.‘

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship – and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a ‚Mad Men‘ episode.

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

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.