We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

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.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

What one has to do usually can be done.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

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.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

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.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.