I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn’t want to face. And I also realized, when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

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

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.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

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

I can handle pain.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

You either make dust or eat dust.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.