People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

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

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

I do believe in self-help.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

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.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

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

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

I came up from a difficult background.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

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.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

I dwell in possibility.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.