Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

If you deserve it, go get it.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

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

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

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

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn’t done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

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.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

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

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

I’m much healthier now.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

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

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.