Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it’s not about the money.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

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

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives‘ mouths.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

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.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

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

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.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.