It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

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

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.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

To create something you must be something.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

I think I have always had a little humor.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

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

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

One must steer, not talk.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.