All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

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

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

For the mission’s sake, for our country’s sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division’s colors in past battles – carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

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

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

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

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what’s going to happen in my life.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

I woke up one day and thought: ‚I want to write a book about the history of my body.‘ I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I’m really not worth being called an artist at all.

The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.