It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

Be good to the people on your way up the ladder cause you'll, meet them on your way down.

The sweetest things in this world today have come to us through tears and pain.

The way you think is the driving force that fashions your world thereby governing the kind of life that you live.

Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever.

The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.

I have made a lot of tactical decisions that historians will look back and say: He shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't have made that decision. And I'll take responsibility for them. I'm human.

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.

Sometimes being let down my a human being is the direct cause for you finding your own strength & depending only on Allah.