Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

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

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

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.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

I’m ugly.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

No man was ever great by imitation.

I’m much healthier now.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Bad men are full of repentance.

I think everybody has something that they’ve been obsessed about in their lifetime.

I give opinions, not advice.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

Never complain and never explain.

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.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

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.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.