No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

Get mad, then get over it.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

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

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

I’ve discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

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

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.