I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

We are wiser than we know.

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.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

One good thing about acting in film is that it’s good therapy.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

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.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

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

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

I think we need more idiot control.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Hope is a waking dream.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Passions are the gales of life.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

I don’t have many sad days.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.