There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Things do not change; we change.

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.

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

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

I was becoming post-ideological.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

We all have done something unethical.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

I believe time wounds all heels.

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

Forget the past.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

Be not a slave of words.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

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

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.