Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Everybody has a purpose.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

I let the American people down.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

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

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

Without failure there is no achievement.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

Courage is grace under pressure.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.