Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

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.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Be not a slave of words.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

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.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

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

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

I’m not very articulate.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

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

The more you know the less you need to say.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

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

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

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

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

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

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

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

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.