What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Character is power.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

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

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

My life has been very full.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the ‚Boston Phoenix,‘ and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that’s where I first saw ‚deadpan.‘

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.