If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

I’m selfish.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

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

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you’re not just bringing the products, but you’re also harming local manufacturers.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

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

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

I don’t crave applause. I’m not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I’m much more alive at home, I think.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I’m trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

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

Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it’s fun to be able to deliver it.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

I’m always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.