Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

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.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

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

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

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 is no sin except stupidity.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

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

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

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

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.