Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose – I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the ‚Boston Phoenix,‘ and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that’s where I first saw ‚deadpan.‘

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

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

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

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

I get naturally uncomfortable when I’m put under a magnifying glass.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

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

Take me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

It is right to give every man his due.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that… we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and… preposterous.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

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

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

I can be a cruel person.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

I have such respect for ‚Democracy Now!‘

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.