I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

The little man is still a man.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

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

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

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

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

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

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

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

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.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.