Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

I’m not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

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.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

There’s always going to be people who don’t understand or accept the united science, and I will just ignore them, as I’m only acting and communicating on the science.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

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

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

There are no second acts in American lives.

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.‘

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

My mother did not like children.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.