I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Being humble matters.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

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

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

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

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

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.

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.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

The only shame is to have none.