Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

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

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

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.

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

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Until it’s on the radio or online, it’s not real. With U2, our album isn’t finished until it’s in the stores.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

Get mad, then get over it.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Honestly, I could care less about other people’s opinions about me.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

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

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

My life has been very full.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

I’ve had everything pierced at some point.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.