I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

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

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

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.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

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.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

You can’t do something forever.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

I am happy and I’m single.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

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

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

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

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.