Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

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.

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

Never complain. Never explain.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

My life is a struggle.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Some people would like me to be round again.

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

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

Single life is so overrated.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.

Let go of yesterday.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.