Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

I think I’ve got wiser.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

The self is hateful.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.