People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

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 have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

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

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

Before all else, be armed.

I’m much healthier now.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

Character is destiny.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.