It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

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

I think that, ah, I’m a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

I think we need more idiot control.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

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.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‚Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.‘

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Never complain. Never explain.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

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

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

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

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.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.