People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

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

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

There’s a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I’m affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn’t want to leave. He likes it very much.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I’d have killed myself.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

I already am a product.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

To live is to think.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

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

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called ‚walking.‘

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

I’m not the most patient of people.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.