It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

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

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

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.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

Applause waits on success.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

I can handle pain.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

No great thing is created suddenly.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

Never take anything for granted.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

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.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.