The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

I’d always somehow felt slightly as if I’d been born in the wrong country.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world’s popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

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

Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

I never expected to be anybody important.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

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

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

My future is righteousness.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

For me, education was power.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.