Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

My message is that God is a good God.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

Money does not change people, people change.

Let go of yesterday.

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

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

I’ve discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

You just have to have a simple faith.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

I’m a Christian by choice.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.