Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

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.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

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

My future is righteousness.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

A person who is truly authentic doesn’t need to play a role in life, we think, but can simply be him – or herself.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

It is always your next move.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

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

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

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.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.