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

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

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

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

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.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

The older you get, the better you get.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.