I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

I’ve had sleep paralysis.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

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

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Modesty is the color of virtue.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

All of our problems start in our minds.

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

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.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I only act from my heart.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Sleep is the best meditation.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

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.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

One must steer, not talk.

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

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

For me, there have been times when an action movie, even a ‚Tomb Raider,‘ has helped me get out of myself and be physical again. It’s like therapy.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar’s life. That is something I’m looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging 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.