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

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

The reward of suffering is experience.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

Be not a slave of words.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

Never mistake motion for action.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

Don’t worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable – and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

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

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.