Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

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.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

I’m an emotional person.

I do a little thing about the way people shake the sweetener packet. You know, like they’re all excited. I want to get all the granules down to one end. I love all these rituals.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘