Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

I was called ‚Dumbo,‘ like the elephant, as a child because I couldn’t understand things at school.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Love is the one wild card.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

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.

We were poor, but we smiled.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

The dinosaurs aren’t remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity’s gone, what do we give to this little planet that we’re on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

I can handle pain.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.