Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God’s nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, ‚Do as You promised.‘

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

Man is not made for defeat.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

There’s people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That’s not the sign of a champion.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Reactive people… are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

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

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

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

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

I don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

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.

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

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

In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

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 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.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.