God created man, but I could do better.

Things do not change; we change.

I’m not the most patient of people.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

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 best way to know God is to love many things.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

The future will be better tomorrow.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

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

I restore myself when I’m alone.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

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.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

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

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

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.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Mine is better than ours.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

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

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

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.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

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

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.