I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

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

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

This is not a showman’s job. I will not step out of character.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.