Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Friends accept you the way you are.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

One must steer, not talk.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

My reputation grows with every failure.

I’ve learned never to say never.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.