As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

The Nation of Islam’s main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn’t want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people’s neighborhoods?

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

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

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

What is true belongs to me!

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

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

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

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

You can be happy where you are.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

If you deserve it, go get it.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

On the RFactor model that comes with the ‚Pro-Sim,‘ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

God always wants us to be growing.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.