Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

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.

I already am a product.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

What is once well done is done forever.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

I’m not a natural born performer.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I’m an old-fashioned mama’s boy.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

God created man, but I could do better.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.