Things do not change; we change.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

He who angers you conquers you.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

I got my own back.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Well, you know, I’m the forever optimist.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

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

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

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

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

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

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

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.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

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.

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.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

I want people to draw strength from me.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.