When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

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.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

You can’t go backward in life.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

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

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

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

I can express myself.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

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

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.