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

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

History is more or less bunk.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

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.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

All of our problems start in our minds.

The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn’t want to face. And I also realized, when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

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.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

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

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Be not a slave of words.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

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

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

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.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

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

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.