When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

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

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

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

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

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

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

I think I have always had a little humor.

I won’t do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can’t, it’s not gonna make the team.