Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

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

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

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

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Let go of yesterday.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

The best is the enemy of the good.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.