Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Giving is true having.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

Forget the past.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

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.

Let go of yesterday.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Choose people who lift you up.

It’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

Learn to think continentally.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.