If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

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

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Begin with the end in mind.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.