Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

Choose people who lift you up.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

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.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won’t forget them.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

I don’t want followers.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

I do believe in self-help.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

No driver is perfect.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

I’m not a natural born performer.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

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.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

Be not a slave of words.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.