As you think, so shall you become.

O, had I but followed the arts!

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Life must be lived as play.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

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.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

To make headway, improve your head.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

I can handle pain.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

To create something you must be something.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

It is important to remember yourself.

Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.