Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

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

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

You either make dust or eat dust.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

As you think, so shall you become.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

Success has always been a great liar.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

What we think, we become.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

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

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

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

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

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