It is easier to be critical than correct.

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

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

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.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

There is no gambling like politics.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

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.

Never find fault with the absent.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Look at the way celebrities and politicians are using Facebook already. When Ashton Kutcher posts a video, he gets hundreds of pieces of feedback. Maybe he doesn’t have time to read them all or respond to them all, but he’s getting good feedback and getting a good sense of how people are thinking about that and maybe can respond to some of it.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

It’s not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

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

The self is hateful.

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.

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

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

History, a distillation of rumour.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

I’m only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else’s life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there’s no point in me blaming you for what’s wrong in my life.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

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

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

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 never expected to be anybody important.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Forget the past.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.