Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

One must steer, not talk.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Never complain and never explain.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

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.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

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

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

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

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

There are no second acts in American lives.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

I think I have always had a little humor.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.