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

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

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.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

I don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.