I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

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

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

Things do not change; we change.

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I’d lay my cards down on that, and say that it’s that that I’m trying to do.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

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

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

Nothing endures but change.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

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.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

I think we need more idiot control.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

You either make dust or eat dust.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

What I’m hoping is that every album I’m going to do will give my audience something different, and that they’ll grow as I do.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

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

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.