When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn’t done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

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.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

Few people realize that luck is created.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it’s not about the money.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

Little things affect little minds.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

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

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

I just want to do well with the national team.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

I can handle pain.

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.

I’ve always had to conquer fear when I’m on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It’s absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I’m okay. It’s like I’m out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

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

Power is competence.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

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.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don’t have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

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

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Don’t ever play yourself.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

Be not a slave of words.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.