I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

If you deserve it, go get it.

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

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

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

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.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.