One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

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

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

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

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.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

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

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

The influence of ‚Hidden Fortress‘ comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it’s told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

Bhai was my hero and he had immense influence on me.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

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.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

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

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

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.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

My life is my message.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.