He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

I just want to be myself.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

‚Soul Plane‘ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.