We become what we repeatedly do.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

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.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Men must know their limitations.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I owe my solitude to other people.

My life is my message.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

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.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

I do the dishes every night – other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.