Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

The people in my songs are all me.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

I woke up one day and thought: ‚I want to write a book about the history of my body.‘ I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

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.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

I’m not perfect.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

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.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

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.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.