Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

You have to be someone.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

I’ve discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

The soul is healed by being with children.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

Libraries raised me.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.