Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

I grew up cursing a lot.

I’m not a natural born performer.

My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

Character is destiny.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

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

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

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.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.