Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

People want to feel hopeful.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Bad men are full of repentance.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

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

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

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

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

I always entertain great hopes.

God always wants us to be growing.

I train and I go home, and when I’m home, I think about training. That’s my life every day, and that’s it.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

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. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Find people who will make you better.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.