My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

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

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

Maybe ‚loner‘ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.

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.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

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

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.

I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

Solitude is independence.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.