A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

If you deserve it, go get it.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

Some people would like me to be round again.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

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.