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

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

I don’t want followers.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

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

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

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

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

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.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

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

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

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.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

I never expected to be anybody important.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.