Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Forget the past.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

My mother did not like children.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.

God helps those who help themselves.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

I’m not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

Never, never, never give up.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Single life is so overrated.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

I probably wouldn’t have made it this far if I were a refugee.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

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

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.