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

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

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

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

The doer alone learneth.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

We’ve come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I’d lay my cards down on that, and say that it’s that that I’m trying to do.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

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.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

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.

I think I’ve got wiser.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

There are people in the world who aren’t necessarily Christians, but they’re just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.