There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

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

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Be not a slave of words.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

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

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Men must know their limitations.

Mine is better than ours.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

It is always your next move.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

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.