Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

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.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

God always wants us to be growing.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

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

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

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

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.