Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

Only the shallow know themselves.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

My life is mine to remember.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

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

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn’t lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn’t a question of their ability – it was a question of their ability to listen.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

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.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

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

Where fear is, happiness is not.