If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

The self is hateful.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

I’m much healthier now.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

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

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

God always wants us to be growing.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

We cannot learn men from books.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.