Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

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

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother’s illness. She had Parkinson’s disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time… All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn’t want to get trapped.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

I can express myself.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

I was raised to be independent.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

Aim for the highest.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.