You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

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.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

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

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

It is always your next move.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

I’m no genius.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Something I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

I’m not the most patient of people.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

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

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

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.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

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

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.