Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

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

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Things do not change; we change.

My life has been very full.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

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.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

The self is hateful.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

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

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

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.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

I can express myself.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

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.

To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

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