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

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

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.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

We boil at different degrees.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

Choose people who lift you up.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

What we think, we become.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.