The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

Observe all men, thyself most.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

I don’t think I get angry.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

I think and that is all that I am.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

People don’t usually compliment your character.