It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

Only you can control your future.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

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?

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

I only want my work to make people happy.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

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

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn’t want to face. And I also realized, when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.