I really have no interest in myself.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

To make headway, improve your head.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Man is a universe within himself.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

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

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

I’m no leader; I’m a little humble follower.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

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

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

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

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

They know enough who know how to learn.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.