I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

The self is hateful.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

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

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

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.

I made lots of mistakes – the number one mistake being trusting other people with my money.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

My life is a struggle.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

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

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

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

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.

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

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

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.