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

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

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

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

How I love David Bowie.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

I am happy and I’m single.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

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

To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That’s what Norman Mailer did. That’s what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that’s what I do – that’s what I mean to do.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.