Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

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.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

Only the shallow know themselves.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.