Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Our work is never over.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Act, and God will act.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

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.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I was becoming post-ideological.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

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

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

Nothing recedes like progress.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.