Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.

I’m addicted to placebos.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

As for my own views, they’ve of course evolved over the years. This conception of ‚renouncing beliefs‘ is very odd, as if we’re in some kind of religious cult. I ‚renounce beliefs‘ practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

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

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.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it’s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

No man is hurt but by himself.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.