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!‘

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Little things affect little minds.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

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

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

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

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

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

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Lost time is never found again.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Women can’t do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other ‚studies‘ courses.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.