You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Now I realize that from ’72 through to about ’76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn’t have been more rock star.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

I don’t regret anything.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

My reputation grows with every failure.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

I give opinions, not advice.

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

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

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

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.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

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.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

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

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.