Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

I always make my dreams into goals.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

‚No comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn’t done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

Dialogue means debates and everyone’s point of view.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

A person hears only what they understand.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

Confine yourself to the present.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

I don’t have faith in young people any more. I don’t waste time trying to communicate with them.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.