Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

I want people to draw strength from me.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Reactive people… are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

Libraries raised me.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

Just because you make a good plan, doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

The self is hateful.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

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

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

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.