Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

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

You have to be someone.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

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

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

I have wasted my hours.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

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

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

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Think and grow rich.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

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

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

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.