If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

My son is becoming me – just a silly, silly prankster guy.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

No, it’s not a very good story – its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

I don’t think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

No driver is perfect.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

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.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

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

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

I think and that is all that I am.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

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

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

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.

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.