The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

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

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

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

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

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

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

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

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

No person is important enough to make me angry.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

I teach children to be winners.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.