Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.

Get mad, then get over it.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

I have a heart of gold, but I’m really a marshmallow in my heart.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

He who angers you conquers you.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Men must know their limitations.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.