When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

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.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

I’m not a natural born performer.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

Bad men are full of repentance.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

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.

Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

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.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a ‚gentleman gambler‘ when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely… There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

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

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.