Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

You have to be someone.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Money does not change people, people change.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

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

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I’ll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

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

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.

I’m not a bad person.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.