You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

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

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

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

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

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

The best way out is always through.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

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.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

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

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

I’ve done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I’ve done it, it’s been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

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

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.