Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

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.

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

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

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

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

I break orbital bones.

We become what we repeatedly do.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

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.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

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.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

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.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

Never find fault with the absent.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

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

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

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.

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.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.