He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

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

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

God to me is love.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

I can be a cruel person.

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

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

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.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

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.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.