People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Things do not change; we change.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

Never confuse motion with action.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

When you say ‚follow me on Twitter,‘ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

The only shame is to have none.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

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

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

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

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

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.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.