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

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

It’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

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

I admire people who destroy themselves.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

I’m a genetic optimist.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

I kinda live where I find myself.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

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

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Solitude is independence.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

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

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

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