I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

One must steer, not talk.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

What I love best in life is new starts.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Never find fault with the absent.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad… he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

I’m much healthier now.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

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

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

I was the first woman to burn my bra – it took the fire department four days to put it out.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.