I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

It is always your next move.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.