Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

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

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

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.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

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

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

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

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

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

You can be happy where you are.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.

We came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.

I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

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

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.