Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

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

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Better is the enemy of good.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud’s own writing.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

I always entertain the notion that I’m wrong, or that I’ll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

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

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.