Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Things do not change; we change.

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

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

I’m not very articulate.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

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

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

For an author, the nice characters aren’t much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They’re doing it for themselves.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.