The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I’m not a god – I do bad things.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

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

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

We work to become, not to acquire.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

I just want to be myself.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

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

Chaos is a friend of mine.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

I came up from a difficult background.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

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

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.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.