You can’t go backward in life.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

No driver is perfect.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

I don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

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.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

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

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.