The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

I’m not a bad person.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It’s a serious problem overseas, but it’s confusing and frightening.

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

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

I’m much healthier now.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn’t try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

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

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

Finality is not the language of politics.

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

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.