To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

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.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

I was raised to be independent.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

Life well spent is long.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

The self is hateful.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.