Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

If you ask enough people, eventually someone will say yes.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

Action expresses priorities.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.