And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Each day provides its own gifts.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

I just want to be myself.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

The best is the enemy of the good.

One must steer, not talk.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

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

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.