Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

My whole life is a theater piece.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

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.

God has entrusted me with myself.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

I think I have always had a little humor.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Men must know their limitations.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.