And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Love is a state of being.

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.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

Let go of yesterday.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Before all else, be armed.

I’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m dumb, I smell. Did I mention I’m stupid?

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

I’m chasing perfection.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it’s not about the money.

Be content to seem what you really are.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Life well spent is long.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

The self is hateful.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

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

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.