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.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

My friends, there are no friends.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

I never say I am a guru.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

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.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

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

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: ‚If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?‘

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

I am proud of having done what I’ve done. Very proud.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could’ve done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it’s best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.