It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Never complain. Never explain.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Mine is better than ours.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

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.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

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

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.