We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

If you can’t hear me, it’s because I’m in parentheses.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Coffee is a language in itself.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

I can handle pain.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

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

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

I want people to draw strength from me.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

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.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

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.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

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

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

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

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.