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

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

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

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

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.

Everybody wants to be me. What can I say?

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

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

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Libraries raised me.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

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

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?