As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

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.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

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.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

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 wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

I have good days and bad days.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

The lie is a condition of life.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Never confuse motion with action.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

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.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.