You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

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.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

As you think, so shall you become.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

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

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

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

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

Be not a slave of words.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

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

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.