Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

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.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

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

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

God helps those who help themselves.

Only you can control your future.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Better is the enemy of good.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

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

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

I don’t think I get angry.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

Now I do whatever I want.

I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I’ve had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm’s way until they could be their own guides.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

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

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

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.