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

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

Revolutions go not backward.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

I’m afraid to fail again.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

You can be happy where you are.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

I came up from a difficult background.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

My life is my argument.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

What you are comes to you.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Everybody has a purpose.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.