Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Get mad, then get over it.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Better never than late.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

I am just one human being.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

I’m not a natural born performer.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Solitude is independence.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

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.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

I think that I’m perfect.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.