Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

Few people realize that luck is created.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Every man is his own hell.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

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

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

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

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.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

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.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

Bob Marley isn’t my name. I don’t even know my name yet.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.