Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

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.‘

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

I can do whatever I want.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

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.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

To make headway, improve your head.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.