An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

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

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

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

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

Think and grow rich.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

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

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

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

I have wasted my hours.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

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

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

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

I’ve learned through my own relationship with God that He’s not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.

Of course, individual change doesn’t make much difference in a holistic picture… but we need both systemic change and individual change.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

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.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

I focus on my own job.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

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.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

Learn to think continentally.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.