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.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

As you think, so shall you become.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you’re always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

Be not a slave of words.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.