Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

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

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

I’ve discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

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

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

I focus on my own job.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

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

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

I never say I am a guru.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.