In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

I didn’t think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I’m not put together like the other chaps.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

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.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

I like pushing boundaries.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

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.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

My future is righteousness.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

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

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.