You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

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

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Character is power.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

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

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

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.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

He who is brave is free.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I’m totally myself.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.