I love being busy.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

Choose people who lift you up.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn’t imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

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!

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

We become what we repeatedly do.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

He who angers you conquers you.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

In twenty years I’ve never had a day when I didn’t have to think about someone else’s needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

I was raised to be independent.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

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 experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.