I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

My life is a struggle.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

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

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

For me, education was power.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

I love being busy.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

I’m about being the best.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

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.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.