Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

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

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

Life well spent is long.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

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

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

I’m not really book-smart.

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

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

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

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

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.