You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

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.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

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

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Find people who will make you better.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

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

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

God’s desire is that we excel.

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.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

The problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

Only the shallow know themselves.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.