We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

I focus on my own job.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

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

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

The best is the enemy of the good.

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.

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

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

No one but a fool is always right.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

We are what we believe we are.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

My secret to staying young… Having no sense of time.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

I think – I don’t know, maybe it’s nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be – it’s gone. It’s going to be gone.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.

Only the insecure strive for security.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.