Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Life well spent is long.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

I know a lot of artists say this, but it’s hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There’s no tricks.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

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

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

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.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.