It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

If you would judge, understand.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

Example is leadership.

I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don’t know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

I wouldn’t say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

There are no second acts in American lives.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

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.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

God has entrusted me with myself.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.