A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

My whole life is a theater piece.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

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.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

I’m only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else’s life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there’s no point in me blaming you for what’s wrong in my life.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Youth is wasted on the young.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

The trained mind is a rich mind.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

Time is money.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.