Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

Where thou art, that is home.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

Character is power.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

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

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

I focus on my own job.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don’t have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.