Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

My life is mine to remember.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

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

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

I’m about being the best.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

Bad men are full of repentance.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

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

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

Pessimism never won any battle.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.