Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

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

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

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

I’m not very articulate.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

If you deserve it, go get it.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

My reputation grows with every failure.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

Aim for the highest.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

Let go of yesterday.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

Small aim is a crime.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.