Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

I am in my own head most of the time.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

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

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

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.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

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.

You can be happy where you are.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

I listen to my old records and I think, ‚How did I ever get on the radio?‘

I’m perpetually lonely.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

We all have done something unethical.

I owe my solitude to other people.

When I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.