I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

I was the first woman to burn my bra – it took the fire department four days to put it out.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

People want to feel hopeful.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

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.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

Giving up cannot be an option.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.