Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

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

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

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.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

I’m not the most patient of people.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

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

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

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.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

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

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Mine is better than ours.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn’t want to face. And I also realized, when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.