Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

My whole life is a theater piece.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

Playing Etta James in the movie ‚Cadillac Records‘ really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It’s no fun being safe.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

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

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

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

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

I’m chasing perfection.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

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

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

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 have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.