Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

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

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

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

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

Love is a state of being.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Choose people who lift you up.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

The bravest person I’ve ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.

People want to feel hopeful.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

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

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.