My pride fell with my fortunes.

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

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 don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

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.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

I came up from a difficult background.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don’t have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

What you are comes to you.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.