To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

You have to be someone.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

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

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

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.

I’ve learned through my own relationship with God that He’s not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.