The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

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

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

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

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

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.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say ‚OK we’ll have another go‘ instead of it being the only chance you get.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.