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

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

We become what we repeatedly do.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose… I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

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

Nobody knows me.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

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.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.