The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Vanity is but the surface.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

The older you get, the better you get.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Libraries raised me.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

I do a little thing about the way people shake the sweetener packet. You know, like they’re all excited. I want to get all the granules down to one end. I love all these rituals.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

When people are lame, they love to blame.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

Dream and you shall become.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.