All my adult life people have been helping me.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

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

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

We boil at different degrees.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

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!

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

Solitude is independence.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

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.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging – weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn’t want to do. I’m very grateful to him, actually.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

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

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

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

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

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.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘