Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Once you feel loved by the universe, you’re already accepted, and you’re not really concerned about offending people.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

Things do not change; we change.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

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

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Learn to think continentally.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.