Some people would like me to be round again.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

I already am a product.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

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

I can handle pain.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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 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.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

For me, education was power.

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.‘

Fear is exciting for me.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

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

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

I’m not a natural joiner.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.