I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

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

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, ‚I am deaf.‘ If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

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.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

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

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

I get nervous for everything – literally everything.