I think everybody has something that they’ve been obsessed about in their lifetime.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

I’m not really book-smart.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

Learn to think continentally.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

I don’t think I get angry.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

Few people realize that luck is created.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

God always wants us to be growing.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

I’m not a nerd, don’t plan to be a nerd and read books – which I can’t do at all.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

To create something you must be something.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

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.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

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

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

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

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.