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

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

I give opinions, not advice.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

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

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

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

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

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.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

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.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I had a brain. And he was always – well, making me feel that I was better than I thought I was.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

Although I’ve been living in the British Virgin Islands for some time now, I have never stopped caring passionately about the U.K. and its great people.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

You have to be someone.

I think we need more idiot control.

Be not a slave of words.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.