I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

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

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

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.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

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

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

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

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

Nothing will work unless you do.

There are no second acts in American lives.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

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.

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

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

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

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

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

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

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.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

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

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

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

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.