One must steer, not talk.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Men must know their limitations.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

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

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

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

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

I understand everybody in this country doesn’t agree with the decisions I’ve made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

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.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

You have to be someone.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

Begin with the end in mind.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.