I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

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

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

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.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

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

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

I was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

I focus on my own job.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

I have goals.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.