I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Be as you wish to seem.

God created man, but I could do better.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat – no matter who killed the meat for him.

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.

I don’t like freeloaders; I don’t like people who are negative.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

There are definitely designers that I love, people I love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But when all of that is equal… is it cute?

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

Character is destiny.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

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.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

My reputation grows with every failure.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

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.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

The best is the enemy of the good.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.