The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Friends are thieves of time.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

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.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

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

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

My future is righteousness.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

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.

Libraries raised me.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

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.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

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

People don’t usually compliment your character.