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

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

I kinda live where I find myself.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

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.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

I’m addicted to placebos.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I’m an old-fashioned mama’s boy.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

Men must know their limitations.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.