A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

Men must know their limitations.

Think and grow rich.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

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

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

I think I’ve got wiser.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

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

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

If a man does his best, what else is there?