And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

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

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

You fail only if you stop writing.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

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.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

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

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.