Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

I always entertain the notion that I’m wrong, or that I’ll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

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

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Respect the burden.

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

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.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

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

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

What you are comes to you.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

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.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.