Make yourself necessary to somebody.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

I’m not a natural born performer.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

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.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

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.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

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

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

Action expresses priorities.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

Passions are the gales of life.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

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.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.