We become what we repeatedly do.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

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

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

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

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

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!

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

To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

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.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

I got my own back.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.