“If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.”

“I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.”

“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”

“Talent is god-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.

People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.” 

“It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.” 

“Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.” 

“I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.” 

“Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.” 

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

‘Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

“I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.” 

“It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.” 

“The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked.” 

“I can resist anything except temptation.” 

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” 

Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

Self-command is the main elegance.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.