Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Power is competence.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Things do not change; we change.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.