It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

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.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

My future is righteousness.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

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.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

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.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.