Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

Men must know their limitations.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

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

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Playing Etta James in the movie ‚Cadillac Records‘ really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It’s no fun being safe.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.