No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

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.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Man is a universe within himself.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

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

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Small aim is a crime.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

No man was ever great by imitation.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

I never say I am a guru.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

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.