Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

The older you get, the better you get.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

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.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

I was raised to be independent.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

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

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense.

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.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

Little things affect little minds.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

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

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.