Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

I really concentrate on what’s on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

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.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

I never expected to be anybody important.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

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

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Only the insecure strive for security.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

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

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

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.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.