One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

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.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

One thing about ‚Star Wars‘ that I’m really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That’s why I like the ‚Star Wars‘ toys.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

Rather be dead than cool.

I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

Be as you wish to seem.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

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

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.