Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

I always wanted to be loved.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

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.

We do not judge the people we love.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

Some people would like me to be round again.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

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

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

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

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.