I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

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

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

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.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

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

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

Don’t ever play yourself.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Observe all men, thyself most.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Some people would like me to be round again.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

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

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

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

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

We boil at different degrees.