The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

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

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

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.

Honestly, I’ve been thinking lately about how boring I am. When I do get time to myself, I watch TV.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

I think I’ve got wiser.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

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

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

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

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.