Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

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.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it’s like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can’t really speak on it, because I wasn’t there. I don’t feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

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

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Travel teaches toleration.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

The truth is lived, not taught.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.