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

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

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

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

I can be a cruel person.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

No driver is perfect.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

I like to let things breathe.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.