Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

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.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

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

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

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

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

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

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

I’m not the most patient of people.

I’m about being the best.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

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

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.