Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
No matter how many grains of gold I serve you, you keep eating oatmeal, and I can’t become my problem.
If you have to improvise, you have to be well prepared.
It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.
They say it’s the white man I should fear, but it’s my own kind doing all the killing here.
It is better to be one of those who sometimes go wrong than one of those who do not go at all.
I have a small walk-in closet, and it can easily turn into a recycling museum, so I’ve also learned to sort out. When you are as old as I am, it is very important not to get sloppy and wear boring clothes.
I am self-created. I always wanted to make myself a better person because I wasn’t educated. But that was my dream – to have class.
If the heroes run and hide, who will stay and fight?
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
I have no vices only desires.
It’s worth remembering that it is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.
That’s one of the worst things about getting old. That people allow themselves to die before you.
I’ve never given myself a lot of credit because of my relationship with Ike. I was just happy when I started to like myself – when I got divorced and took control of my life.
I’ve never tried that before, so I can probably do it well!
If you’re a giver, remember to learn your limits. Because the takers don’t have any.
Throughout my life, the message and teachings of Christ have been my guide and in them I find hope. It is my heartfelt prayer that you will continue to be sustained by your faith in times of trial and encouraged by hope in times of despair.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you like what you do, you will succeed.
Of course, I have nothing against the language changing, but there must be reasonableness in it, so that it does not become a mere gas can. On the other hand, new words are sometimes added that I wouldn’t do without – for example, “smug”. It’s my new favorite word. It’s a wonderfully oily word, a precise word that covers a certain type of person with a high degree of self-confidence in their own abilities.
The one who comes first to the mill gets milled first
I’ve never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I’m pretty concerned, I’m pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don’t let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it’s a new crowd out there, it’s a new audience, and they haven’t seen us before. So it’s got to be like the first time we go on.
Life is not about waiting for the storm to subside. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.
Those who have never made a mistake have never tried anything new.
The early bird catches the worm. The early worm gets eaten.
If it’s dancing, or anything else in life my darling, that matters to you, then don’t let anything or anyone stop you.