What is common sense isn’t common practice.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

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.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

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.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

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

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

I never smoke to excess – that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

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.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

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

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which many believe goes hand in hand with it – will be dead as well.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

As you think, so shall you become.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.