Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

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

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

You have to be someone.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

For an author, the nice characters aren’t much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They’re doing it for themselves.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

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

The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

Being humble matters.

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

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

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

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It’s only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they’re just economic figures.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

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?

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

All of our problems start in our minds.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

It is always your next move.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

A stiff apology is a second insult… The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.