Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

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

You can’t go backward in life.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

I’m not really book-smart.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say ‚first alarm clock‘ because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

People want you to fail.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

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

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

I can do whatever I want.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

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

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Never take anything for granted.