I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

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

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

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.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Libraries raised me.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

I hate to be smart.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life – I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

What is true belongs to me!

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Character is power.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.