What you put into life is what you get out of it.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

Of course, individual change doesn’t make much difference in a holistic picture… but we need both systemic change and individual change.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

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.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

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

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

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

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

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

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

I like pushing boundaries.

If I can be a leader, I will.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.