Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

The older you get, the better you get.

I’m much healthier now.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

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.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

Life well spent is long.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

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.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

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

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

I think I’ve developed, as many people do, this sense of, ‚Don’t say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.‘

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.