He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

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

A great man is always willing to be little.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

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

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.

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.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

My mother did not like children.

If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I’ll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

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

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

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.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

Choose people who lift you up.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.