I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Of course, individual change doesn’t make much difference in a holistic picture… but we need both systemic change and individual change.

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

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

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.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

I do not raise brats!

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

We become what we repeatedly do.

I give opinions, not advice.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

To make headway, improve your head.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

You may delay, but time will not.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

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

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.