Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Always do whatever’s next.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

I am just one human being.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Before all else, be armed.

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

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‚Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.‘

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Libraries raised me.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.