If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.

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.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

You should never give up your inner self.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

Political courage is not political suicide.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

What we live by we die by.

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

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

I’m nobody, who are you?

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.