While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

I kinda live where I find myself.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Libraries raised me.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

No driver is perfect.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

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 invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

We are wiser than we know.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

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.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.