I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

Never complain. Never explain.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

In ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

It is always your next move.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

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

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

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!

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

I’m not a natural born performer.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

We become what we repeatedly do.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

To add value to others, one must first value others.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.