Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

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

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

If I can be a leader, I will.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

There is so much that people take for granted.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Every wall is a door.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

We are what we believe we are.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

I’ve got a terrible memory; it’s probably because I’m always concentrating on what I’m doing now.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

The people in my songs are all me.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.