A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

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

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Competition is a sin.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

I’m just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I’m inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

When you tell a recruiter that you’re almost 300 pounds and you want to be a SEAL, it doesn’t go too well. I got hung up on a lot.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.

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.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.