People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

I’m not a god – I do bad things.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Silence is a source of great strength.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

I think and that is all that I am.

It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

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 put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

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

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.