I am just one human being.

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

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

I think and that is all that I am.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

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.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

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.

The reward of suffering is experience.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

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!‘

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

I give opinions, not advice.

People want to feel hopeful.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‚Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.‘ See the positive in negative events.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

I’m afraid to fail again.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.