Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself – let’s put it that way.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

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.

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

I admire people who destroy themselves.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

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

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

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

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

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

Only the shallow know themselves.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

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.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

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

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

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

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

I’ve learned through my own relationship with God that He’s not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.