When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Never confuse motion with action.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

I am happy and I’m single.

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

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

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

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.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.

One must steer, not talk.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.