Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

No one but a fool is always right.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

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

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

Of course, individual change doesn’t make much difference in a holistic picture… but we need both systemic change and individual change.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

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

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

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

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Hatred is settled anger.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.