I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I’m an old-fashioned mama’s boy.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

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

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

I’m not a god – I do bad things.

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

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

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

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

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

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

I already am a product.