An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

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.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

Be as you wish to seem.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

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

It is natural to want to have a future.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

You are victors, not victims!

Everybody wants to be me. What can I say?

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

I do believe in self-help.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

The only shame is to have none.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

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

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

God always wants us to be growing.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.