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

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

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

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

My life is mine to remember.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

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.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

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

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

All of our problems start in our minds.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

We must use time creatively.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

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.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

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

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.