Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

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

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

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

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

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

It is easier to be critical than correct.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

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

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

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

I didn’t get depressed, I don’t get depressed.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

God always wants us to be growing.