Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

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

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

I’m not really book-smart.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

You can’t go backward in life.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

It’s a very confusing era that we’re in.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don’t know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

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.

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.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.