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

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

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

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

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 have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

I’m addicted to placebos.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

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

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‚Yes,‘ you know he is a crook.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

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

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

Although designers continue to dream of ‚transparency‘ – technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt – both creators and audiences actually like technologies with ‚personality.‘

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

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

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

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

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

All of our problems start in our minds.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

Solitude is independence.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

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

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.