There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

I’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say ‚first alarm clock‘ because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.

I’m not a natural born performer.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

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

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Competition is a sin.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

No man is hurt but by himself.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.