A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

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

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

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

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

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

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

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

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

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

Love is a better teacher than duty.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

Single life is so overrated.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

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

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

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.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

If you deserve it, go get it.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

The best is the enemy of the good.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

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.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.