Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

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

I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

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.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

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

I’m not a bad person.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

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

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

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.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

I think I have always had a little humor.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

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

We become what we repeatedly do.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

I’m not a natural joiner.