Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

I’m chasing perfection.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.

Find people who will make you better.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

I’m comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it’s stretched. Ha ha.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

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.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

I don’t think I get angry.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.