A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Only the insecure strive for security.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

Never confuse motion with action.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

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.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.