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.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

I love being busy.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Nature does nothing in vain.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

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

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

I can do whatever I want.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

Act, and God will act.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.

What is true belongs to me!

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

My life is mine to remember.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.