What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

I’m addicted to placebos.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

I am in my own head most of the time.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

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.

Go on thinking that you don’t need to be read and you’ll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won’t feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

I think that I’m perfect.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

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

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

I never fall in love.

I think I’ve got wiser.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.