Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

‚Lives‘ is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material – and after that, you’re not sure what you can do.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

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

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Success has always been a great liar.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

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

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.