I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Material things ain’t nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it’s who you is. You wasn’t born with it; you gon‘ die without it.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

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

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

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.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

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

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.