Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

I’m not really book-smart.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

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

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I’ll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

I always make my dreams into goals.

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.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

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

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

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

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

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

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.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

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.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

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 have goals.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.