It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

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

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

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.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

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.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

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.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

I’ve learned never to say never.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Never mistake motion for action.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

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!

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

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

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

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

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.