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

Aim for the highest.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

I owe my solitude to other people.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

I’ve learned never to say never.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

I never hold a grudge.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Better is the enemy of good.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

The self is hateful.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.