We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

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.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

I don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

To be social is to be forgiving.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

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

Love can do much, but duty more.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

A great man is always willing to be little.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.