There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

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.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

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.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Be content to seem what you really are.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

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.

You are victors, not victims!

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.