It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

I don’t regret anything.

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

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I am just one human being.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

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.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

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.

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.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

God always wants us to be growing.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.