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.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

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

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

You have to be someone.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

We become what we repeatedly do.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.