The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

Observe all men, thyself most.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn’t want to face. And I also realized, when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

No man was ever great by imitation.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

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

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.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

I have goals.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.