Confidence comes from discipline and training.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

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

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

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.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

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.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I’ll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

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.

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

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.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

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!

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

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

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.