If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

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?

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

I hate to be smart.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Character is power.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Things do not change; we change.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Genius is patience.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.