If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

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.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

‚1984‘ is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

I am just one human being.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Life well spent is long.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

I’m much healthier now.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

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

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.