Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

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

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

One must steer, not talk.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Little things affect little minds.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

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

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Find people who will make you better.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Observe all men, thyself most.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

To make headway, improve your head.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

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.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.