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.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

Money does not change people, people change.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

I won’t do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can’t, it’s not gonna make the team.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

I want people to draw strength from me.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

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.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

I like pushing boundaries.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.