The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

Death is a fearful thing.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

You should never give up your inner self.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

I was becoming post-ideological.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

I specifically did not read other First Ladies‘ books, because I didn’t want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role – very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‚tough this and tough that.‘ Then there is this business about ‚gooey.‘ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

Action is character.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.