The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head – chemo-brain they call it. It’s awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Men must know their limitations.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

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

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

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.‘

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

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.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.