People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

I’m not intelligent. I’m not arrogant. I’m just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn’t want to become a writer – it just happened.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn’t imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

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

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

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

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

You have to be someone.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.