Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

What one has to do usually can be done.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

What I love best in life is new starts.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

I don’t regret anything.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

I was raised to be independent.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

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.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.