Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Nothing will work unless you do.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

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.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Never mistake motion for action.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

A great man is always willing to be little.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

The more you know the less you need to say.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

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

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s ‚Pensees‘ and read, ‚I am the great silent spaces between worlds.‘

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.