Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

Success has always been a great liar.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

Travel teaches toleration.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

You have to be someone.

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

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

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.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

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

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

I’ve learned never to say never.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

I don’t want followers.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.