I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.

You can’t do something forever.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

Character is power.

I grew up in a funny way.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

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.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

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.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

There are no second acts in American lives.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.