We must be our own before we can be another’s.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

To be social is to be forgiving.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the ‚Boston Phoenix,‘ and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that’s where I first saw ‚deadpan.‘

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

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

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

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.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.