Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

What we think, we become.

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

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

My reputation grows with every failure.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Character is power.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Nothing endures but change.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

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

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

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.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

As you think, so shall you become.

There is no education like adversity.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.