Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

I’m selfish.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

What I love best in life is new starts.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

I think I don’t take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it’s a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

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.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Better is the enemy of good.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

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

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

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

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

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.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

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

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

I’m not the most patient of people.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

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 best of us must sometimes eat our words.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.