Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

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.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

Little things affect little minds.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

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’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

I’m not a centerfold.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

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.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

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

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

The older you get, the better you get.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

We become what we repeatedly do.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

I’m a genetic optimist.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

I’m no leader; I’m a little humble follower.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

It is always your next move.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

What is true belongs to me!

I can express myself.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.