I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

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.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

To be awake is to be alive.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Mind over mattress.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

I was a thug.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

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.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

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.

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

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

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