I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

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

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

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.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

No man was ever great by imitation.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

I think I’ve got wiser.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

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 set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

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.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

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.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.