Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

When you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

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.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

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.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.