If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

I don’t have all the answers.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

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

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

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

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

We cannot learn men from books.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

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

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

I do believe in self-help.