Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

You have to be someone.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

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

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

Be as you wish to seem.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

I was raised to be independent.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.