Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

I’m not really book-smart.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

If you deserve it, go get it.

On ‚Think Like a Man,‘ they got the best out of me because they allowed me to bring my own cadences and opinions to the character that I was playing. I think we got the best of that particular character.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

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.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

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

The only shame is to have none.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

I give opinions, not advice.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

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