If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

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

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

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

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

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

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

I hate to be smart.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

God created man, but I could do better.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

It’s important for me to let my fans know I really don’t care. I’m confident.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.