People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

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

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

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I’ll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I’ve always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn’t sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I’m in a fortunate position.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Think and grow rich.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

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

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

To make headway, improve your head.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Maybe ‚loner‘ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.