I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

I hate to be smart.

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.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

The self is hateful.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

We live in ugly times.

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

How young can you die of old age?

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

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.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.