Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

I’m a genetic optimist.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Fear is real, but so is love.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

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

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Solitude is independence.

Only the insecure strive for security.

I think we need more idiot control.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

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.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

What you are comes to you.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.