Become aware of your own insufficiency.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Don’t ever play yourself.

Be content to seem what you really are.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

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.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

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.

Power is competence.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

A man’s character is his fate.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

What one has to do usually can be done.