The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

The only thing I’m afraid of is bees. I don’t like bees. I’m allergic to them.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

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.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

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.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

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

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

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

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Power is competence.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

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

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

My life is mine to remember.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

My life has been very full.

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.

Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

No man was ever great by imitation.

I’ve learned never to say never.