We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

I let the American people down.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

I really have no interest in myself.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

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

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

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

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

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.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

I think I’ve developed, as many people do, this sense of, ‚Don’t say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.‘

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.