You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

The older you get, the better you get.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

Whether full-time missionaries or members, we should all be good examples of the believers in Jesus Christ.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God’s nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, ‚Do as You promised.‘

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

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

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

I’m not a bad person.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.