I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

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.

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

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

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

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

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

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

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

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

All of our problems start in our minds.

I don’t have all the answers.

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.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.