What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

People want you to fail.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

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

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

Libraries raised me.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

All fiction is about people, unless it’s about rabbits pretending to be people. It’s all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that’s what we call ‚the plot‘.

I don’t think I get angry.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

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

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.