Make yourself necessary to somebody.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

The self is hateful.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

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

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

See, winners embrace hard work.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

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

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

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

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

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

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

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

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.