Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Libraries raised me.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

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.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

The only shame is to have none.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

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

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

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.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I’ll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Choose people who lift you up.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

They know enough who know how to learn.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.