You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

I like to let things breathe.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

I don’t like being alone.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

To kids, I’ve always been more than just some big tough black guy. I train to be tough – I box and do karate – but underneath all that toughness is a tender man.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning – like at 4:30 in the morning – you’re going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.