Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, ‚Maybe someday we’ll build a company. This probably isn’t it, but one day we will.‘

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

What is past is prologue.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

It’s good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that’s better than you’d imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn’t be as much fun.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

I really have no interest in myself.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

He who is brave is free.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

I will not be triumphed over.