Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

I’m chasing perfection.

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.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

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.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.