What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

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?‘

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

I got my own back.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

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

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

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.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

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

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

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

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

I’m an emotional person.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

I’m a can-do girl.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

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

Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.