The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

God always wants us to be growing.

I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.

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

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

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

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Never find fault with the absent.

I focus on my own job.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

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

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

It is natural to want to have a future.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.