By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

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

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

No driver is perfect.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.