If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

If you deserve it, go get it.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

I just want to be myself.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Don’t ever play yourself.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

Single life is so overrated.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.