I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

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.

People want you to fail.

Small aim is a crime.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

I’m very at ease, and I like it. 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. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

Men must know their limitations.

I have wasted my hours.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

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.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

What we think, we become.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Enemies are so stimulating.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.