The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

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.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

We cannot learn men from books.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

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

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

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

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

We record when I have a hole in the schedule. Sometimes night, sometimes afternoon, sometimes morning – we fit it in when we can. I prep for episodes all the time.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

The only shame is to have none.

I’m not a bad person.