When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

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.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

I don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

I’m perpetually lonely.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

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

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Libraries raised me.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

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.‘

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.