The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

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.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

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

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

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

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Never confuse motion with action.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.