I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

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

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

If you can’t hear me, it’s because I’m in parentheses.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

Humble people ask for help.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

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.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

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

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Better is the enemy of good.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.