A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

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.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

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

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

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

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn’t done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

Error is always more busy than truth.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

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

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

Never complain and never explain.