I can live for two months on a good compliment.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

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.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

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.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

My drive is other people’s success.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.