When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life's tragedies.

I crack jokes and do silly things not so that people laugh on me but because of me.

Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.

...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.

My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking.

I think I am pretty much melancholic.

My concern is what fight we can give to the fans. My first concern as a boxer is to try hard and give a good fight for the fans.

To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.

Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.