Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

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

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

I’m perpetually lonely.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Faith never makes a confession.

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

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

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

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

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, ‚Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.‘

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that’s beyond the practicality of what I can do.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

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’m the most stubborn person I know.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

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