We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

I always wanted a family.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

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

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

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.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

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

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

I love being busy.

Get mad, then get over it.

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.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

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

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

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.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

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

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

You should never give up your inner self.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.