Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it’s the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there’s not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

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

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

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

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I think I’ve got wiser.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

I don’t regret anything.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.