A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

When I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

I’m always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

I don’t do any vulgar movements.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

I’m an absolutely normal guy.

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.

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

I let the American people down.

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

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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.

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: ‚If the door’s shut, don’t come a-knockin.‘ But if it’s open and you’re walkin‘ by, feel free to say, ‚Hello.‘

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.