Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

Men must know their limitations.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Humble people ask for help.

I’m much healthier now.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

Things do not change; we change.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

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

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

I think I’ve got wiser.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

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

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.