What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Character is power.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

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

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

Freedom is relative.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

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

The best is the enemy of the good.

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

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

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

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

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.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

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.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.