Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Few people realize that luck is created.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

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

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.