The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

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.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

It is always your next move.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Our best thoughts come from others.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

I’m not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.