You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

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

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

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

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

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.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

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

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

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.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

I can handle pain.