People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

I’ve learned never to say never.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

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

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

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

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.