To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

I think I’ve developed, as many people do, this sense of, ‚Don’t say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.‘

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

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

You can be happy where you are.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

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

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

Never mistake motion for action.

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

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.