If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Be as you wish to seem.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

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

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

If you deserve it, go get it.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

You are victors, not victims!

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

I do believe in self-help.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

We become what we repeatedly do.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

God always wants us to be growing.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

I’m afraid to fail again.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.