When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

Reactive people… are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

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

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

I don’t crave applause. I’m not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I’m much more alive at home, I think.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

Be not a slave of words.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother’s milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won’t be any winners.

What one has to do usually can be done.

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

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

I don’t think I am evangelical in my work.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.