Power is competence.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

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.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Things do not change; we change.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

I can handle pain.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

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.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Humble people ask for help.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Dream and you shall become.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?