I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

I am just one human being.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

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

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

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

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

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

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

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

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

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Only you can control your future.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you’d grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

If there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Act, and God will act.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.