People don’t usually compliment your character.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

I am happy and I’m single.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Some people would like me to be round again.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

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!

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what’s going to happen in my life.