I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

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.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

To create something you must be something.

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

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Reactive people… are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

People want to feel hopeful.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

No man was ever great by imitation.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.