You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

Time is the only critic without ambition.

I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system – at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

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

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

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

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

We work to become, not to acquire.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Power is competence.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

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

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world – not to win them, but to be like them.