Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

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

Observe all men, thyself most.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.

I’m much healthier now.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

Enemies are so stimulating.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

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.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

You either make dust or eat dust.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.