Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

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

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

The influence of ‚Hidden Fortress‘ comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it’s told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

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

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

If you can talk, you can write.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer… in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.