If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

It is always your next move.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

I’m never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

There’s an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they’ve ‚nailed it,‘ most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

We live in a bewildering world.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Every day is a major balancing act that I have to figure out and coordinate.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

I’m not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don’t like L.A., but I’m just a Northern California guy.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

I’d have to be superman to do some of the things I’m supposed to have done, I’ve been at six different places at six different times.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.