Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

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

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

We cannot learn men from books.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

I am very strict about what I eat. I do not consume anything that my body does not require. It takes a lot of sacrifice and discipline. It wasn’t easy before but now its second nature for me.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Losing is tough.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

Money does not change people, people change.

I will not be triumphed over.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

Little things affect little minds.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

I am just one human being.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.