You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, ‚Don’t get comfortable, because we may not be here long.‘

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

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

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

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

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

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

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

Only the shallow know themselves.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.