The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

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.‘

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

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

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

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.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

I only want my work to make people happy.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.