When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Let go of yesterday.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

The post of honour is a private station.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

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.

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

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

I’m not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

I think that I’m perfect.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

I probably wouldn’t have made it this far if I were a refugee.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.