We cannot learn men from books.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

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 never saw myself as a folk singer.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

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

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

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

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

Error is always more busy than truth.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

Only the insecure strive for security.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

Custom reconciles us to everything.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.