Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want.

Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be.

Take pride in how far you've come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don't forget to enjoy the journey.

The key to a better life: Complain less, appreciate more. Whine less, laugh more. Talk less, listen more. Want less, give more. Hate less, love more. Scold less, praise more. Fear less, hope more.

People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.

Pretty isn't beauty. Pretty is how you look; Beauty is who you are. Pretty is in the face and body; Beauty is in the heart, mind and soul. Pretty fades; Beauty grows.

Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New year will bring new opportunities.

What will matter is not your success but your significance.

When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don't take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them.

Success in anything important rarely comes without the Five Horsemen of Success: planning, effort, positivity, perseverance and resilience.

The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell.

Whoever calls on the Savior, shall be saved.

A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing.

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.

I was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but I didn't have a tape measure.

Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.

I think perception is important.

A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.

What I said was that I was at first supportive of Bernie [Sanders] when he came to Los Angeles for his first rally, I was there, I was supportive.

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.